Ellen DeGeneres - Gay Quotes

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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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The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It's a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.

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With all of our differences, we [members of the audience] all have one thing in common, we're all gay. Now there are people out there [in audience] going Do they think we're gay because we're here? Do we look gay? I told you this would happen. We're not going to understand a word of this. Seriously, though, if you're here you're probably gay. I mean, you have tendencies, you've thought about it. Now there are people [in audience] going I have thought about it. Does that mean I'm gay? I'm not gay. Is that how they get us?

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