This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn’t working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.
ELLEN DEGENERESI cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don’t harbour resentment.
More Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
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For some reason, we can’t just enjoy somebody else’s success. Somehow, that’s going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less – and I don’t know why.
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Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most
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It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.
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We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we’re cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.
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You’re never too old to play. You’re only too old for low-rise jeans.
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Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
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I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.
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I was coming home from kindergarten – well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It’s good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
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In the 80’s we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they’d have to go up another size, if you know what I mean.
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I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don’t eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.
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There’s nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.
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My dog of 17 years just died. Oh you’re kidding?… Noooo… as funny as that is, I’m not
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I don’t need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I’m going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.
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It’s funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.
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I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.
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