Christiane Amanpour | "But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."

"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."

Christiane Amanpour, English Journalist

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"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."

"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."

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"Nico di Angelo ran up to me with a big grin on his face."Percy, this is awesome!" His blue-feathered bronze helmet was falling in his eyes, and his breastplate was about six sizes too big. I wondered if there was any way I'd looked that ridiculous when I'd first arrived."

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Personal Development

"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."

Democracy

"U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next."

Witness

"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."

Family

"Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children."

Family

"We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does."

Fear

"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news."

Foreign

"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."

People

"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."

People

"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."

Journalism

"In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies."

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"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Nico di Angelo ran up to me with a big grin on his face."Percy, this is awesome!" His blue-feathered bronze helmet was falling in his eyes, and his breastplate was about six sizes too big. I wondered if there was any way I'd looked that ridiculous when I'd first arrived."

Author Name

Personal Development

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"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."

Democracy

"U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next."

Witness

"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."

Family

"Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children."

Family

"We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does."

Fear

"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news."

Foreign

"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."

People

"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."

People

"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."

Journalism

"In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies."

Society