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I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn’t ringing. There wasn’t one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn’t work in Hollywood again.

Ellen DeGeneres

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
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Compassion Inspiring Strong Women
It’s hard when paparazzi are photographing every single thing you do. I’m sure a lot of people made mistakes – they just were not documented the way they are now.
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Mistakes People Photographing Way
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
Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn’t threaten you or who you are.
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Children Judgement Want
I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle
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Bottles Glasses Half
I’m a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.
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Lesbian People Vegetarian
Do we have to know who’s gay and who’s straight? Can’t we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?
ELLEN DEGENERES

Gay Hilarious Judging
Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I’ve been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I’m happy I could give him work.
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Funny Giving Humor
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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Brain Funny Hands Humor
Dan: ‘Ah, well, I hope this didn’t have anything to do with me.’ Ellen: ‘No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.
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Batman Cat Well Woman
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
What’s New Orleans without music? And what’s music without dancing?
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Dancing Music New Orleans Without
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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Moving Spring Want
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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Believe Gay Out Speaks
I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.
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Matter Out Weight Work
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
You have to have funny faces and words, you can’t just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that’s why it’s hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
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Funny Humor Powerful
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
I like to try new things because I get bored so easily.
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Bored New Things Trying
This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn’t working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.
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Believe Grateful Real
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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Decision Editing Team Writing
Beauty is not between a size 0 and a size 8. It’s not a number at all.
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Beauty Between Numbers Size
My dog of 17 years just died. Oh you’re kidding?… Noooo… as funny as that is, I’m not
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Dog Funny Humor
Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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Eye Inspirational Inspiring
You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, ‘Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it’s so repetitious.’
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Breathing Funny Relationship Nerves
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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Funny Humor Ideas
If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don’t memorize numbers anymore.
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Book Numbers Phones

I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn’t ringing. There wasn’t one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn’t work in Hollywood again.

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I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn’t ringing. There wasn’t one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn’t work in Hollywood again.

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