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Chelsea Clinton Quotes

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

Chelsea Clinton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: celebrity
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1980

Topics

Father Parenting Parents Me Thought

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

Andrew Vachss

Perfection Pursuit Cannot Achieved

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

John Oliver

Daily Trying Authority Actor Started

When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

Jeffrey Kluger

Children Best Parents Wind Legacy

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.

Sue Monk Kidd

Time Moment People Amazing Speak

I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour.

Skylar Laine

Live Guitar Boots Phone Without

I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.

Steve Toltz

Day Writing Reading Thinking You

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

Tom Stoppard

History Common Sense Done Now Sense

I haven't worn jewelry since one of the front teeth I had made into an earring became no longer necessary because I lost the ear.

Mick Foley

Jewelry Lost Teeth Because Necessary

If it's funny, I'll do anything.

Cloris Leachman

Funny Anything

I don't really think too far ahead, usually.

Brooks Koepka

Think Ahead Far Too Really

When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

Ali Babacan

Money Gold Back Country Possible

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

Sharon Stone

India Awareness AIDS Amount Enormous