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."

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

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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

"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad."

Trust

"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."

War

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

Arrival

"'m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day."

Being

"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."

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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."

Author Name

Personal Development

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

Author Name

Personal Development

More

"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

"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad."

Trust

"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."

War

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

Arrival

"'m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day."

Being

"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