Quote by Ellen DeGeneres
While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success

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. Id say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses. – Ellen DeGeneres

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I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I dont care if its called marriage. I dont care if its called, you know, domestic partnership. I dont care what its called. – Ellen DeGeneres

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I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness – and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, Im a human trying to make it through in this world. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Comedy can be, especially in a writers room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. Its not a nurturing place. Its not like a lot of women are going to say, I cant wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writers room until 2 or 3 a.m. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. – Claude M. Bristol

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Success isnt everything but it makes a man stand straight. – Lillian Hellman

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To me, success is choice and opportunity. – Harrison Ford

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