All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. “Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?” “Yes, I have all those things! I’m alive!”
ELLEN DEGENERESI 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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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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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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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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I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.
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There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don’t even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don’t seem to have time now.
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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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I’m sure there’s somebody out there who doesn’t like Betty White because she’s short and has white hair.
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There’s nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.
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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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Yeah I’m thirty-six, but on the show I’m thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
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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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One rough patch is not the big picture.
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I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.
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Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.
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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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