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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I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.
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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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Good friends are often our lifelines. Mine have seen me through heartbreak, through the deaths of loved ones, and through that phase in college when I was obsessed with denim jumpsuits and matching fingerless gloves.
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I'll probably continue to write about heartbreak forever. That stuff doesn't go away as you get older.
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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.
