I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.
ELLEN DEGENERESSo 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 cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don’t harbour resentment.
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I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.
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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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It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
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You know, it’s hard work to write a book. I can’t tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.
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I don’t consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer.
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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 do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He’s the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor’s wife right now.
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I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on.
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My hair is always at its best in New York. I don’t know what’s in the water. It could be mousse.
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Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
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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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We 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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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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The way I see it… If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you’re doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.
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