Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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Many times, I know before I speak to the player what they are thinking. It's very important to know when to push, when to put the pressure on, and when to take it off.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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The bell. It was already time to part, to go to bed. The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. I hated that bell. Whenever I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell.
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Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I approached the second record big-time.
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I love how close New York is to Europe; I love the seasons, and I don't think I could live without them. They're the way I track the passage of time.
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I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.
