Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour, CBEis a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour. Amanpour is also a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News. As of 2014, she has been recognized as one of the journalists most world leaders follow on Twitter, according to a report by the PR firm Burson-Marsteller...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 January 1958
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We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
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No matter what the hocus-pocus focus groups tell you, time has proven that all the gimmicks and all the cheap journalism can only carry us so far.
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Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be.
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same kind of defiance as in his previous two appearances.
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His hair is black, as it's always been, his beard was black with significant gray ... a good deal older and weaker and more frail than he looked the last time I saw him come into court in the summer of 2004 when he came for his initial hearing.
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And then there's always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.
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No detail was too small for him to chase and to check, ... He was dedicated and brave and brilliant, and he had a deep strain of wisdom and conscience.
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I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.
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the world as a whole is prepared to act.
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European leaders are expected to disagree with Bush's olive branch.
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Now, ... now that we've got that sorted out, can we all go inside?
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Let's see what they're carrying first, ... It's just water.
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Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.
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But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.