Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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You don't see many Jon Jones's.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.
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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
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Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.
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To the outside world, I was pretty bad at everything my whole life. People didn't credit me for my musicianship.
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Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise.
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But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.
