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I had to sit down and explain to [her friend] that AA was for quitters


Chelsea Handler

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SHARON CREECH It was liberating for Chelsea.
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LAURA MARANO Man, it's just beautiful. I should also add that this record is bigger than King and he knows it. Th...
ANDY HURWITZ To come home with an Award of Merit was wonderful...especially for being the breeder, trainer and ha...
GAIL TORACINTA How could I explain why I'd acted that way? How could I explain how scary it was, to find out that I...
SUSAN BISCHOFF Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of ...
CHASTITY BONO Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of ...
CHAZ BONO We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year.
HERMAN FRAZIER It was hard for me to sit down and not be vocal. (But) down the stretch, I thought they did a nice j...
GREG HEBDEN I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, b...
EDEN HAZARD Self-pity is an emotion that is reserved for quitters.
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CARL DODD Her only way home was to betray her friend.
SCOTT WESTERFELD The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to oth...
FRANCES PERKINS I looked at my friend. I don’t know what I had done to deserve her friendship but she was always t...
AMANDA STONE I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.
JULIETTE BINOCHE But here's something that I know about friendship: Sometimes the right thing to do is to not point o...
DANA REINHARDT I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
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ETHEL WATERS We've never had a sit-down together to discuss this.
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ACE FREHLEY Obviously she saw something that was workable to get past all the other stuff, ... I feel very honor...
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DANIEL HANDLER I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind autom...
DANIEL HANDLER I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
DANIEL HANDLER You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a c...
DANIEL HANDLER I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a ...
DANIEL HANDLER If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the ...
DANIEL HANDLER 'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous in...
DANIEL HANDLER The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wo...
DANIEL HANDLER So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers...
CHELSEA PERETTI When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in f...
CHELSEA CLINTON There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ag...
CHELSEA CAIN While watching the revelry in the Barn, I'd had an epiphany. Parties weren't just about who was who ...
CHELSEA SEDOTI Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most peopl...
CHELSEA MANNING Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - a...
CHELSEA MANNING Wear an unusual accessory to complete your outfit.
CHELSEA LEYLAND I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done private...
CHELSEA CLINTON My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that '...
CHELSEA CLINTON I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit w...
CHELSEA CLINTON The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up f...
CHELSEA LEYLAND Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power....
CHELSEA MANNING I've been a huge fan of Marc Jacobs for many, many years, even going back to when I was wearing ...
CHELSEA MANNING Having a birthday around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more a...
CHELSEA MANNING My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. Tha...
CHELSEA CLINTON I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.
CHELSEA CLINTON Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my ...
CHELSEA CLINTON I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their ...
CHELSEA CLINTON There's something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her da...
CHELSEA CLINTON I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.
CHELSEA CLINTON As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur Natio...
CHELSEA CLINTON