Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, 'Well, you should go to therapy.' And I thought about it, but then I said, 'Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?' And that's when I got the idea of touring.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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I think I've learned not to take everything so seriously and just try to focus on the work the most.
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Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah).
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Tell me, when you are alone with him Max Beerbohm Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
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Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?
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Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
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I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, 'Well, you should go to therapy.' And I thought about it, but then I said, 'Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?' And that's when I got the idea of touring.
