Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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I'm a typical California boy.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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For the Amex, which has been casting around for a role for itself, microcaps fill a crucial void - a 'niche' that Amex officials feel has been neglected.
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I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.
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'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.
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That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
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The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)
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We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
