Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.
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The long arc of history that recounts the Catholic Church's embrace of people of all faiths and none in providing health, education, and welfare in society is as incontestable as it is impressive.
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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
