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The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you’re not.

Ellen DeGeneres

I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it’s me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.
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Decision Editing Team Writing
If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don’t memorize numbers anymore.
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Book Numbers Phones
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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Funny Gay Humor Otherwise Really
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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Ironic Mistake Warning
My name is Ellen and I’m a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I’ve said it.
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Add Labels Names
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
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Compassion Inspiring Strong Women
Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
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Law Lawyer Legal System
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
I 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.
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Everything Funny People Strange
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
My dog of 17 years just died. Oh you’re kidding?… Noooo… as funny as that is, I’m not
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Dog Funny Humor
Have you seen the deer heads on the walls of bars, the ones wearing party hats, sunglasses and streamers? I feel sorry for them because obviously they were at a party having a good time.
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Party Sorry Wall
So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
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Drama Knowing People
I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.
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Aunt Children Discipline
One rough patch is not the big picture.
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Patch Picture Rough
It would be horrible to live with someone who didn’t like the same things you like.
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