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American journalist and academic, Birth: 27-2-1980 Chelsea Clinton Quotes
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Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.
Chelsea Clinton

Millennials are often depicted as indifferent, aloof, detached and self-centered. However, nothing could be further from the truth of the Millennials I have had the chance to encounter and collaborate with.
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I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
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Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.
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My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
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I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.
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Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.
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We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.
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Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.
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I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.
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Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.
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When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.
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Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.
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I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't. That wasn't the metric of success I wanted in my life. I've talked about this to my friends who are doctors and whose parents are doctors, or who are lawyers and their parents are lawyers. It's a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make.
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Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'
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I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.
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I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.
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At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.
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I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.
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Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.
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Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.
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My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.
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I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.
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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
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A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.
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I was working full time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy. At one point a month had gone by, and Marc - my then boyfriend, now husband, and I hadn't gone out on a date. I was like, I don't want to be this person. I want to be a person who cares where she's investing her time and energy. And I want to be a good wife, daughter, and friend.
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I am so proud and grateful to be my mom's daughter.
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I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.
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I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.
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I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.
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My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.
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Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.
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It just seems so fundamental to me. I'm able to marry the person I wanted to marry. That's the fundamental human imperative. Those of us who have been lucky enough should expand these rights to others.
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For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I had, and I had more opportunities than certainly my grandmother had. It's the arc of history, always bending toward justice and opportunity, and she will be part of that.
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We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.
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He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.
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For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.
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I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
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I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.
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I just kept thinking about what my mom [Hillary Clinton] has said repeatedly when people have asked her similar questions, she's tough and she can take whatever people say about her.
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For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.
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I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.
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You'd better talk to my dad. My mom's pretty busy.
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I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.
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My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBT rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.
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I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.
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Determination gets you a long way.
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My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
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I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.
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I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.
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Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it.
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