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Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most
Ellen DeGeneres
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Ellen DeGeneres
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 26
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Ellen Lee DeGeneres
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I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him.
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People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.
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It must be around forty, when you're over the hill. I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
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I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive.
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Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
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And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.
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The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself.
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I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment.
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We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'
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You're gonna be ok, dum de dum dum dum, just dance.
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I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?
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I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.
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Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep!
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We're told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?
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There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans
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We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.
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Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.
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If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore.
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Have you seen the deer heads on the walls of bars, the ones wearing party hats, sunglasses and streamers? I feel sorry for them because obviously they were at a party having a good time.
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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.
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