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Speaker 1: Hi, This is Bill Clinton, and welcome to the new

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Speaker 1: season of Why am I telling you this? Why am

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Speaker 1: I telling you this? Because it is your future on

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Speaker 1: the line? And why am I telling you this? Why

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Speaker 1: am I telling you this? Why am I telling you

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Speaker 1: this tonight? Not to take you down, but to keep

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Speaker 1: you looking up. I started why am I telling you this?

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Speaker 1: Because I spent a lifetime being interested in other people's stories.

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Speaker 1: I come from a working class family, and sometimes times

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Speaker 1: were good and sometimes times were not great. Because once

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Speaker 1: you've heard a person's hopes and fears, where they've been,

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Speaker 1: where they want to go, your differences start to slip away.

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Speaker 1: There are people in North Philadelphia that don't know a Republican.

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Speaker 1: There are millions of people in rural America that don't

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Speaker 1: know a Democrat. With deep divisions taking tighter hold across

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Speaker 1: America and all around the world, it's clear that we

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Speaker 1: all need to know each other better. Men hate each

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Speaker 1: other because they fear each other, and they fear each

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Speaker 1: other because they don't know each other. So I wanted

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Speaker 1: these conversations to celebrate the unique gifts that make life interesting,

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Speaker 1: but to affirm that our common humanity matters even more.

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Speaker 1: You don't want everybody having the same opinion. You want

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Speaker 1: to be forced to harmonize with people to make choices.

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Speaker 1: I came of age knowing that the right to vote

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Speaker 1: wasn't just about casting a ballot. It was the only

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Speaker 1: way to tackle the poverty we lived in. And I

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Speaker 1: get to be a fan of some of the most

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Speaker 1: compelling and entertaining people in music, television, film and sports

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Speaker 1: and ask about why and how they do what they do.

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Speaker 1: First day of practice, Chuck Davies said, Michael Jordan, You're

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Speaker 1: going to be the captain of the dream Team, and

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan said, no, Magic Johnson and Larry Birds should

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Speaker 1: be the captain of the dream Team. Every character that

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Speaker 1: you're writing about has to be the hero of their

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Speaker 1: own story. People are not just these two dimensional paper

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Speaker 1: you know, doll cutouts. If you'll control the fire, you

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Speaker 1: can do any cooking you want. Control the fire, and

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Speaker 1: you will have been control of your destiny. I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll join me this season for more stories and conversations

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Speaker 1: with some of the most interesting people I know. Listen

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Speaker 1: to the new season of Why Am I Telling You This?

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