Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.

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• I'm not Cinderella.

  

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• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

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• I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.

  

  Kate O'Mara
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• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  

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• Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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• To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

  

  Ian Botham
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  • Win

• You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Amazing
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• I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Small
  • Never

• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
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  • Experience

• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

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  • Surviving

• No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Game
  • You
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• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

  Van Morrison
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• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
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• They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

  

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• You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.

  

  Edie Campbell
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  • Eyes
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• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

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  • Ending

• Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

  

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• Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.

  

  Marie Lu
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• I see what keeps people young: work!

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Work
  • Young

• This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today.

  

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  • Heart
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• When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People