I hate having to do small talk. I’d rather talk about deep subjects. I’d rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.
ELLEN DEGENERESHere 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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I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle
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You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.
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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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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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I think gender plays a part in most things, but I don’t know how it would be different because I’ve never been a man. And my fame is different from Nicole Kidman’s or Sharon Stone’s. I think everybody’s fame is different.
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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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The world is filled with negativity. I want people to watch me and think, “I feel good, and I’m going to make somebody else feel good today.
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I don’t really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.
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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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Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most
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It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.
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There’s nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.
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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 believe one day a ‘ban on gay marriage’ will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us.
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I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.
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