A biography for Brooke Baldwinhasn’t been written yet.
“I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.”
“Whether it's summiting Kili or achieving my next work goal - Look forward for a moment, but then keep your head down and trudge on.”
“Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.”
“At age 12, it was obvious. I had to go to Space Camp.”
“All I know is what I do each and every day and what we do here at CNN, which is all about the facts, asking tough questions, challenging leaders and our own leadership in this country.”
“People are full of great advice... Professors, parents, friends mean well... But in the end, the person driving this thing called life is you. Listen to you. Spend time being alone. Learn your worth. Dream. And never forget where you came from.”
“My job is to be OK without a precise plan.”
“You never ask a Maasai warrior how many cattle he has; it's like asking someone how much money they've got in their bank account.”
“I've never used the word 'I' in a piece in my 18 years in journalism.”
“My drive comes from my parents and from Westminster.”
“When President Ashraf Ghani gave his 2014 inaugural speech at the presidential palace, he choked up thanking his wife for her support and announced that she would take on a public role. That a male leader in Afghanistan would thank his spouse - let alone go on to promote her work and appear with her publicly - made news around the world.”
“What does 'home' really mean? Is it merely geography, where you were born? Could it include straddling two continents and cultures? Or perhaps it's a place with a spiritual magnetism - a feeling toward a culture or people - that's tough to put into words?”
“I graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish in 2001 and landed my first on-air job in Charlottesville, Va.”
“I run into viewers all the time who have no idea I've moved to N.Y.C. I think, for many of them, a studio is a studio is a studio.”
“It's important to stay a human, to be a journalist, to be a human covering the stories and trying as best as I can to put myself in their shoes, to be respectful, to just listen.”
“I knew the second I slipped on my dress that it was the one. I felt sexy, not super bride-y, and just entirely me.”
“I had to put in my time all through my 20s. Then I came to CNN in 2008 as a freelancer with no guarantees.”
“Feeling physically strong in the morning truly helps me keep focused the rest of the day.”
“I've covered tornadoes and other natural disasters. I wasn't on the ground for Katrina. But as our helicopter descended toward Mexico Beach, I just saw an entire town gone. Leveled, with the exception of a condo still standing here and there.”
“There are often days when I've sat down in my office for hours and prepped for a show knowing, three minutes before I go on, some big crazy thing happens where everything is thrown out, and the teleprompter goes blank.”