Quotes from Anderson Cooper

Misquoting drives me bananas.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One less thing to worry about.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

I lose my wallet all the time, and I break my phone all the time.

I think my mom and dad both wanted to get across to me that... I obviously grew up with great privilege and was very lucky and was able to afford college and not have student loans, and they would pay for college, but beyond that, it would be up to me to make a living.

No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.

There was a time when I first started when I made a fake press pass and borrowed a camera and headed into wars, and for three years, that was the only kind of story I was interested in doing.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.

From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would have been so motivated.

When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.

I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.