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1. "You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
2. "Be kind to one another. Bye, bye." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
3. "You know, radio DJ's must really love to talk to theirselves. Especially when they have the graveyard shift. 'Hey this is Ellen with 89.1. It is currently three in the morning. There are few cars on the road. And it your still listening heres a little music to get you to dance.." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
4. "Haters are my motivators" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
5. "...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
6. "I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
7. "Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
8. "I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
9. "Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
10. "Do you feel insecure because you keep getting the nagging feeling that you're not that smart? Well, I've got good news for you, my friend. You have no need to be insecure. That nagging feeling is absolutely right on target. You are not that smart. But I have more good news for you. You are also not alone." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
11. "The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
12. "I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it's dark and you can't see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears?" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
13. "If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
14. "It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
15. "The word "yoga" literally means "uniting", because when you're doing it you are uniting your mind and your body. You can tell this almost immediately because your mind will be thinking, "Ouch, that hurts," and your body will say, "I know." And your mind will think, "You have to get out of this position." And your body will say, "I agree with you, but I can't right now. I think I'm stuck." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
16. "You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
17. "The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
18. "I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
19. "I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
20. "Procrastinate now, don't put it off." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
21. "Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
22. "Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
23. "When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
24. "Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
25. "My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
26. "Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
27. "Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
28. "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
29. "I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
30. "If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
31. "I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
32. "Just go up to somebody on the street and say 'You're it!' and then run away." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
33. "I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
34. "I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
35. "One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
36. "Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
37. "If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birthday is on June 9 or something. Just read up on the traits of a Gemini. Suddenly you're a multitasker who loves the color yellow. Because not only do you get stuck with them combo gift, you get the combo song. "We wish you a merry Christmas - and happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas - happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Ye - Birthday, Terry!" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
38. "I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
39. "I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
40. "I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
41. "Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
42. "I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
43. "Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
44. "If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
45. "I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
46. "What's not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to each other, we barely even talk to each other. People have become so accustomed to texting that they're actually startled when the phone rings. It's like we suddenly all have Batphones. If it rings, there must be danger. Now we answer, "What happened? Is someone tied up in the old sawmill?""No, it's Becky. I just called to say hi.""Well you scared me half to death. You can't just pick up the phone and try to talk to me like that. Don't the tips of your fingers work?" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
47. "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:Yes.Yes.No.One time in high school.Three times in my twenties.Rocks no salt.Yes.Four.Never. And how dare you!I will take no further questions." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
48. "...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
49. "Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
50. "Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
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