Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look for: outsized human beings.

John Lithgow

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Even though my face has gotten more familiar with doing 'China Beach' and 'The Wonder Years,' I'm the kind of actor that people thought, 'Gee, that guy looks familiar. He must have put my storm windows in. He works at my bank or something.'

Robert Picardo

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Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.

Simon McBurney

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There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

Tony Judt

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I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.

Mike Rowe

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Looking the way I look, whenever anybody's looking for a light brown funny guy, I get the call... I'm 100 percent Greek, but I look like I could be Indian or Middle Eastern or Hispanic. If it's ethnic, they'll try and put me in it.

Jason Mantzoukas

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I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while, I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

Don Rickles

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I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.

Donald Trump

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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Clifton Fadiman

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Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.

Peter Diamandis

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It seems to me that any reason for people getting more active in running or taking part in politics and government I think is just terrific.

Rick Santelli

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I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Richard J. Daley

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