Top 45 Anderson Cooper Quotes (BROADCASTER)

Top 10 Most Famous Anderson Cooper Quotes (BEST)

“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.”
Anderson Cooper

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

The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud. — The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more **happy**, comfortable with myself, and proud.

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

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life. — In my opinion, the ability to **love** another person is one of God’s greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.

Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life. — Never too late to **change** your relationship with somebody in your life.

Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do. — **Learning** what you don’t want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.

I've never been a Burger King person. I'm a total McDonald's person. — I’ve never been a Burger King person. I’m a total McDonald’s person.

12 Inspirational Anderson Cooper Quotes About Life

“The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.”
Anderson Cooper

The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns. — The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don’t be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. — In a perfect world, I don’t think it [one’s sexual orientation] is anyone else’s business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

I don't believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn't mean you don't feel afraid or frightened. I think it's normal and healthy to be afraid in situations. — I don’t believe in letting **fear** dictate what you do, but that doesn’t mean you don’t feel afraid or frightened. I think it’s normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss. — Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has **empathy** for those who have experienced loss.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself.

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness… The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories. — You can’t stop suffering, you can’t stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness… The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined.

You just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it. — The people I admire most hadn’t really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

15 Anderson Cooper Quotes that will Make You Think (WISDOM)

“I don’t like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they’re not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don’t want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.”
Anderson Cooper

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. — 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.

I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I'm planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on. — I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I’m planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on.

You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind. — You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are **confident** and have never known sadness or **fear**, but believe me, they have, so be **kind**.

Trying to please everyone all the time never works. It leads to hating oneself and then hating oneself even more when one later tries to assert one’s authority. — Trying to please everyone all the **time** never works. It leads to hating oneself and then hating oneself even more when one later tries to assert one’s authority.

I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.

We like to think we are our own people, but sometimes it seems we are just playing out a script that was imprinted in us along ago.

I don't think I'm fearless at all. I think anybody who says they're fearless doesn't last very long. I think I'm pretty cautious, actually. — I don’t think I’m fearless at all. I think anybody who says they’re fearless doesn’t last very long. I think I’m pretty cautious, actually.

“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.”
Anderson Cooper

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. — 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.

Inside, however, in our core, past the aches, pains and creaking joints of age, youth still resides. Keep that in mind.

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting. — I have a friend – I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don’t want a million texts. It’s exhausting.

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

Who's, like, inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in our lives? — Who’s, like, inherited a lot of **money** that has gone on to do things in our lives?

“The benefit of thinking you will die at fifty is that it can spur you to accomplish a lot of things at a young age, which is what I have attempted to do, but now the prospect of living longer makes me uncertain about the plans I’ve made.”
Anderson Cooper

4 Anderson Cooper Quotes on Love

“There is so much to be joyful about, so many different kinds of rainbows in one’s life: making love is an incredible rainbow, as is falling in love; knowing friendship; being able to really talk with someone who has a problem and say something that will help; waking up in the morning, looking out, and seeing a tree that has suddenly blossomed, like the one I have outside my window — what joy that brings. It may seem a small thing, but rainbows come in all sizes.”
Anderson Cooper

I love you in ways that are infinite and as in eternity have no beginning or end. — I **love** you in ways that are infinite and as in eternity have no beginning or end.

To realize that your mother's love life has been far more interesting than one's own is a weird thing to discover. — To realize that your mother’s love life has been far more interesting than one’s own is a weird thing to discover.

“I don’t have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl – like when I was 12 – there was a lot of sharing, and a lot of talking, and a lot of asking how I am. They thought we were dating, and I was sort of hoping to meet their brothers.”
Anderson Cooper

4 Anderson Cooper Quotes on Health and Gym

“Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself. Illness grabs the soul. You plunge in and out of hope, fearing you will never recover. All that I have been, all that I am, all that I might become no longer exist. I am alone. Nothing can distract from the truth of this finality.”
Anderson Cooper