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.
ELLEN DEGENERESI had everything I’d hoped for, but I wasn’t being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn’t like me for being… me.
More Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
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You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, ‘Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it’s so repetitious.’
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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
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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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It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it’s okay again. That’s what meditation is to me.
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I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.
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I just like observing people – it’s something I’ve done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That’s a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.
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We’re just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.
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You just have to keep driving down the road. It’s going to bend and curve and you’ll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.
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So, I bought a new CD and I was trying to get it open but couldn’t with all the layers… I mean plastic and then tape, and the tape is like government tape. It says ‘open here.’ Is that sarcasm?
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I don’t think I remember my first memory.
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Beauty isn’t between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical.
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People give me such a hard time because I don’t wear dresses. What’s that got to do with anything?
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I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.
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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.
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I don’t really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.
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You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.
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It would be horrible to live with someone who didn’t like the same things you like.
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Yeah I’m thirty-six, but on the show I’m thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
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Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.
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We’re told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?
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Do we have to know who’s gay and who’s straight? Can’t we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?
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Above all, I strive to be the best I can – to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.
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So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we’ve checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.
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I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle
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The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble.
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There is something about TM. It is the only time I have that stillness… It gives me this peaceful feeling-I just love it so much.
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