Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.
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But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
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My own parents loved each other very much.
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In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
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When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.
