Chelsea Clinton Quotes
When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
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History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.
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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
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As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
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My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.
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When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
