What are you saying? Are you suggesting that the notion that we are creating a plot to take everybody's guns away so that we can enforce marshal law is a conspiracy? Yes, that is a conspiracy. I would hope you would agree with that. Is that controversial? look, I mean, I'm only going to be here for another year. I don't know -- when would I have started on this enterprise, right?

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

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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.

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I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

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

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I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written t... by Anderson Cooper

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

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I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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