Anderson Cooper Quotes

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

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

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.

Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.

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

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

In terms of the people that President [Donald] Trump is going to have around him, the cabinet. Predominantly white, predominantly male.

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.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds

Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.

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.

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.

Do you get the anger that is out here?

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.

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

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

I was surprised how much Andy Cohen reveal about his insecurities and your personal life.

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

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.

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

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

Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.

I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.

I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.

I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.

[Andy Cohen] enjoy your fame more than anyone I know.

My personal favorite [ moment] was when someone asked for one selfie too many and [Andy Cohen] snapped and tried to kill her by hugging her.

I had no idea how many famous people [Andy Cohen] have unintentionally and hilariously insulted of late: Charlie Rose, his cousin Amber Rose, Tori Spelling. . . . the list goes on and on.

It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.

As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!"

It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.

I think Hillary Clinton's been's depressing democratic turnout.

I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.

So, he [Donald Trump] still says deport - they all got to go.

We'd be happy to have more fair treatment in the media, but I'm not going to find unicorns on my doorstep tomorrow.

Anderson [Cooper]!Hillary Clinton is running as the first female president who has a sitting president and first lady much more popular than she will ever be.

Anderson [Cooper], I guess the question I have is why can't CNN cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism?

You guys should know we do [ cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism] because you watch CNN all day long.