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.
ELLEN DEGENERESIt feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it’s okay again. That’s what meditation is to me.
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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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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.
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Come on, if you don’t win tonight it doesn’t mean you’re not a good person, it just means you’re not a good actor.
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If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don’t memorize numbers anymore.
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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 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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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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I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.
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I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.
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I’m so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!
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One rough patch is not the big picture.
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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’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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Beauty is not between a size 0 and a size 8. It’s not a number at all.
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When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it’s hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn’t feel like me.
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My dog of 17 years just died. Oh you’re kidding?… Noooo… as funny as that is, I’m not
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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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There’s always time to do things that you’re passionate about. … If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. … Design is really my true love.
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A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.
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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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The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble.
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People give me such a hard time because I don’t wear dresses. What’s that got to do with anything?
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I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.
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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
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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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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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