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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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of their determination fades with time. The important thing is not that your resolve never wavers, but that you don't get down on yourself when it does and throw in the towel.
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I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.
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My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
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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.
