Ellen DeGeneres Quotes - Page 2

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• 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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  Real, Believe, Grateful

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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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  Graduation, Integrity, Giving

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• 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

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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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  Inspiring, Strong Women, Compassion

  "The Oprah Winfrey Show", November 9, 2009.

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• I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

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  Compassion, Animal, Rights

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for breakfast, you couldn’t just go on the Internet and tweet it out. There was only one way to do it. You had to go outside and scream at the top of your lungs, 'I ate waffles for breakfast!' That’s why so many people ended up in institutions. They seemed crazy, but when you think about it, they were just ahead of their time.

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  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

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  Funny Inspirational, Mean, Past

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

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  Laughter, Kindness, Thinking

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators.

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  Funny, Hater, Trying

  "JC Penney reveals customers' show of support for Ellen DeGeneres" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2012.

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• The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.

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  Believe, Gay, People

  "Seriously... I’m Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.

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  Beautiful, Attitude, Inner Beauty

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.8, HarperCollins Australia

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• I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men... I don't drink coffee.

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  Coffee, Men, Drink

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• My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

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  Balance, Life Is, Lows

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously...I'm Kidding”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

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  Funny, Beautiful, Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.

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  Loud Voices, Rights, Feelings

  "Dancing with DeGeneres". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

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  Being Yourself, Teenage, Comedian

  "Gay suicide sparks calls for tougher privcacy laws in the US". "AM" on ABC Radio, www.abc.net.au. October 2, 2010.

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• Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals.

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  Responsibility, Animal, Thinking

  "Ellen on Life, Love and Laughter!" by Ellen Degeneres and Elizabeth Leonard, people.com. March 03, 2014.

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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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  Thinking, People, Feel Good

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• 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?

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  Hilarious, Gay, Judging

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• The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

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  Graduation, Integrity, Passion

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• Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science.

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  Blood, Laughing, Swim

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• It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

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  Inspiring, Success, Failure

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously...I'm Kidding”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.

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  Looks, Penguins, Surprise

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• What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

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  New Orleans, Dancing, Without Music

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• So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.

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  Technology, Reality, Phones

  Ellen DeGeneres‏ @TheEllenShow, twitter.com. September 9, 2014.

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