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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.

Ellen DeGeneres

I know that experts say you’re more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn’t make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.
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Experts Flying Frightened Hurt Less
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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Challenges Important True Yourself
I’m a godmother, that’s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that’s cute, I taught her that.
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Cute Funny Hilarious
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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Government Mean Sarcasm
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
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Book Fun Passion Talk
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
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Honesty Inspiring Kindness
It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and stop holding on to some form of discrimination that it’s just isn’t fair.
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Fundamentals People Want
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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Gay Hilarious Judging
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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Cucumbers Juice Source Water
It’s hard when paparazzi are photographing every single thing you do. I’m sure a lot of people made mistakes – they just were not documented the way they are now.
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Mistakes People Photographing Way
Beauty is not between a size 0 and a size 8. It’s not a number at all.
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Beauty Between Numbers Size
If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don’t memorize numbers anymore.
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Book Numbers Phones
Above all, I strive to be the best I can – to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.
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Being Best Tomorrow Yesterday
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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Crazy Inspiration Meditation Practice
What’s New Orleans without music? And what’s music without dancing?
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Dancing Music New Orleans Without
It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
ELLEN DEGENERES

Bigs Differences Positive Stay

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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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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