Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
ELLEN DEGENERESWe put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.
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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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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 care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.
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I don’t pay attention to the number of birthdays. It’s weird when I say I’m 53. It just is crazy that I’m 53. I think I’m very immature. I feel like a kid. That’s why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can’t do certain things anymore – like doing the plank for 10 minutes.
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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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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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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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…we should be grateful for them because without our family-the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day-life is pretty boring.
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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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I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don’t harbour resentment.
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There’s nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.
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Portia and I have been married for 4 years and they have been the happiest of my life. And in those 4 years, I don’t think we hurt anyone else’s marriage. I asked all of my neighbors and they say they’re fine
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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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All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. “Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?” “Yes, I have all those things! I’m alive!”
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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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