Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

Ellen DeGeneres

• People
• Time
• Political
• Party
• Sleep

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Team

• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Independent
  • Push

• The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Small
  • Islam
  • Prophet

• I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Flowers

• If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • You
  • Imagination
  • Planned

• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Country
  • America
  • Health

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Government
  • Status Quo

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Government
  • Decent

• Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'

  

  Wale
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Day

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Money
  • Free
  • Political

• E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Fighting
  • See

• Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.

  

  Laura Dern
  • True
  • Eyes
  • Worry

• My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • School
  • House

• We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Support
  • Human
  • Human Rights

• Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Up

• Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Car

• School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed that creative outlet so much. Also, I'm just bad with numbers.

  

  Amy Adams
  • School
  • Bad

• Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven are equally evocative.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Song
  • Cooking

• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Time
  • Political