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.
ELLEN DEGENERESIt would be horrible to live with someone who didn’t like the same things you like.
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I put a basketball in front of George Clooney’s door and sprayed it with supermodel perfume to lure him out.
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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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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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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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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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I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.
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You have to have funny faces and words, you can’t just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that’s why it’s hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
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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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I’m sure there’s somebody out there who doesn’t like Betty White because she’s short and has white hair.
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I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who’s making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?
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If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.
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I would love for the world to be happier.
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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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I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don’t harbour resentment.
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I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle
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