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I’m a godmother, that’s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that’s cute, I taught her that.

Ellen DeGeneres

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
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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Country Hair People Water
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.
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Giving Graduation Integrity
True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.
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Eye Hair Inspiring Related Women
We can sit and worry about what’s going to happen to us two weeks from now. I’d rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.
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Country Focus People Two Worry
So, I bought a new CD and I was trying to get it open but couldn’t with all the layers… I mean plastic and then tape, and the tape is like government tape. It says ‘open here.’ Is that sarcasm?
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Government Mean Sarcasm
A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.
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Car Room Rooms Tiny
…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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Cousin Grateful Years
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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Fundamentals People Want
I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle
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Bottles Glasses Half
It would be horrible to live with someone who didn’t like the same things you like.
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Horrible Like Things
I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal – because I’m not hiding anything from them.
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Careers Fans Supportive
You’re never too old to play. You’re only too old for low-rise jeans.
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Fashion Jeans Play
I admire people who know they can’t sing. There are so many people out there who can’t sing, but they think they can, so they sing a lot.
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Admire People Thinking
I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I’m about to take a bite of something.
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Nice Pictures Somebody Worry
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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Comment Energy Want
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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Emphasis Energy Happy Vibrant
I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It’s not easy to find those people all the time, but they’re out there.
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Believe Honest People
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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Coffee Design Tables
So 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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Phone Reality Technology
It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
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Bigs Differences Positive Stay
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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Baby Funny Humor
Most people don’t get to laugh, be free, dance, be surrounded by this energy. It’s important to remind people to take that home. I want the world to start shifting [to] a more positive energy.
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Home Important Laughing People
Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.
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Another Bye Kind People
My dream guests are really not so much celebrities. They’re people who are actually interesting and they’re doing something interesting with their lives or had an interesting experience in some way. I really enjoy talking to regular, everyday people.
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Dream Interesting Talking
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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Better Feel Littles People
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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Character Community Gay

I’m a godmother, that’s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that’s cute, I taught her that.

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I’m a godmother, that’s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that’s cute, I taught her that.

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