Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. 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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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I want to have a long career.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. 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.
