Ellen DeGeneres Short Quotes

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It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

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It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

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It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.

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Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.

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You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.

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What are perfect strangers? Do they have perfect hair? Do they dress perfectly?

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There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

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I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

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Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

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Be open to learning new lessons even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.

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The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head.

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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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That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it.

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Do you live each day as if it's your first or your last? Either way you should probably have a diaper on.

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Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

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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.

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All you can do
is be good to people
and hope that those people
will be good to you too
but good luck
I doubt it.

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It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.

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I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

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Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

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So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

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My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it...

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My grandmother, God bless her, started walking when she was in her sixties. Now she's 95 and we don't know where the hell she is.
Variant: 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.

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You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

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Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, and by all means you should follow that.

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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.

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I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

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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.

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There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

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