Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Consciousness
  • Deny

• I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Yourself
  • Win
  • Tough

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Work
  • Children

• I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • Know
  • Changes

• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Strong
  • You
  • Sometimes

• If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Unexpected

• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • You
  • Realize

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Different
  • Home
  • Week

• Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Real
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Know
  • Write
  • Start

• Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Time
  • Money
  • May

• We're all here for a limited amount of time, and life is difficult - not unfair, but difficult. The key is to really confront our fears because when we do, and when we look at them, we really begin to realize that we are capable of handling them.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Life
  • Time

• Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Pretty
  • Curiosity
  • Practical

• I have this dream again and again: I find extra rooms in the place where I live. You could say it's a very New York dream, but I think it's about writing - the feeling that there is something behind a wall or a door.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Dream

• I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Writing
  • Team
  • Amazing