Quotes & Jokes by Ellen DeGeneres / page 8

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My hair is always at its best in New York. I don't know what's in the water. It could be mousse.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help someone with directions unless you have a terrible sense of direction. Help someone who is trying to help you. Just help. Make an impact. Show someone you care. Say yes instead of no. Say something nice. Smile. Make eye contact. Hug. Kiss. Get naked.

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.

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.

You're not going to find a Pygmie on Paxal, I'll tell you that.

I don't want to take a pill. Go to Africa, go follow some bushman around. He's being chased by a lion. That's stress. You're not going to find a pygmy on Paxil, I'll tell you that right now.

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.

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

I guess I don't have to point this out, that it's the second time I've hosted the Emmys after a national tragedy. And I just want to say that I'm honored because it's times like this that we really need laughter.

What's with this sudden choice of disorders we get right now? When I was a kid, we just had crazy people. That's it, just crazy people.