Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I didn't grow up in a house - we moved a lot, and we always lived in apartments. But we looked a lot; we went to open houses almost every weekend. I think that's why I always wanted a house.

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• When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Song
  • Myself

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Years

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Looking
  • Make
  • Go

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Again
  • Once
  • Arrogance

• The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Country
  • High

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Thought
  • News
  • Journalism

• People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Night
  • Year

• So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Art
  • America
  • High

• I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Time
  • Age
  • Think

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Important
  • Influence
  • China

• I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!

  

  Garth Davis
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  • Time
  • Work

• Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more noticeable than others and that's why there's the limelight. Everybody's in it.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Why
  • Gift
  • Limelight

• With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • May
  • New

• The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Support

• And my favourite new songwriter is Joe Banfi from Sheffield. He's dark, edgy, serene and beautiful.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Beautiful
  • Dark
  • Edgy

• I didn't grow up in a house - we moved a lot, and we always lived in apartments. But we looked a lot; we went to open houses almost every weekend. I think that's why I always wanted a house.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
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