Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.
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I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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I'm from that generation where there aren't that many pictures of me as a baby.
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Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.
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I am a wife-made man.
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A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
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Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.
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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
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My friends and family are not really fixated on the specifics of 'Star Wars.' My parents don't know anything about 'Star Wars.' They've never watched a 'Star Wars' film.
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Jennifer Lopez, she opened so many doors for Latinas such as myself.
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The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.
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It's a joy, the process itself, even instrumentally, playing and constructing music. It's just so beautiful to me.
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I'm pushing - on a bipartisan basis, actually - to get federal support for the creation of high-quality textbooks that can be downloaded for free on the Internet.
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In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.
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What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.
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Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.
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I'm not sure if they do this in the States, but in Korea, until high school, on your graduation diploma there's a line that states your future goal. Kids write 'president' or 'astronaut,' or whatever. I always wrote 'singer.'
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As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."
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I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.
