Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.
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Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
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Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.
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My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!
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Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.
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Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
