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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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Chelsea Clinton
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 27
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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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I know I'm late, but I've finally joined Facebook!
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I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.
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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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He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.
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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 loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.
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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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My most important identity now is as a mother.
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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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Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food.
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My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity. Marc and I want to make sure we're doing that. This period of our lives is not just a tribute to her, it's inspired by her. And it's for when we have our own children — I want to help make sure we've got a world I want them to live 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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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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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.
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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.
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I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.
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Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it.
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You'd better talk to my dad. My mom's pretty busy.
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