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 DEGENERESI think I let go of the need for approval. It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more desperate for it. Once I felt better inside about myself… I could do everything based on how I want to do things.
More Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
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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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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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Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
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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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I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.
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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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Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
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I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
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Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.
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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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So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.
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I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That’s really why I do what I do.
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When I decided to have my character on the show come out, I knew I was going to have to come out, too. I never wanted to be the lesbian actress. I never wanted to be the spokesperson for the gay community. Ever. I did it for my own truth.
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I’m on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I’m gonna rip it off.
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Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.
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