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- For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Commenting on being called over to sit with Johnny Carson back in 1986
- You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
- Ellen DeGeneres, US Magazine, January 1995
- A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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