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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.

Ellen DeGeneres

It’s funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.
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Cucumbers Juice Source Water
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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Giving Hard People Times
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
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Book Fun Passion Talk
You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.
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Dresses Funny Humor
I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.
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Aunt Children Discipline
I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle
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Bottles Glasses Half
What goes up must come down, which is why I don’t wear tube tops.
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Come Down Tops Tubes
Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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Eye Inspirational Inspiring
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
I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.
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Asparagus Funny Humor
We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we’re cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.
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Ironic Mistake Warning
I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness – and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I’m a human trying to make it through in this world.
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Beautiful Inner Peace Trying
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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Hug Killers Serial Killer
I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.
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Goes On Saws Vegan
You know, it’s hard work to write a book. I can’t tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.
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Book Hard Women Work
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
Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.
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Called Dust Something Thinking Wipe
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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Funny Home Humor
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
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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Believe Design Names Something
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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Animal Hate Meditation
I was raised in an atmosphere of ‘everything’s fine.’ But as I got older, I was like, ‘Well no, everything’s not fine. There is stuff that’s sad.’ I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.
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Atmosphere Person Sensitive Thinking
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 didn’t go to college at all, any college, and I’m not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I’m a huge celebrity.
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College Funny Humor
I don’t want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: “That’s a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going.
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Baby Cute Funny
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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Feelings Gratitude Life Living
Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony.
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Feet Hurt Shoes

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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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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