I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.


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People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with any...
ELLEN DEGENERES
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing ...
ELLEN KEY
Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find...
ELLEN DEGENERES
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beauti...
ELLEN DEGENERES
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev...
ELLEN KEY
I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life ...
ELLEN GILCHRIST
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
ELLEN KEY
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future...
ELLEN KEY
The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the i...
ELLEN KEY
Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the confli...
ELLEN KEY
It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their ...
ELLEN KEY
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
ELLEN KEY
The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rej...
ELLEN KEY
In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child br...
ELLEN KEY
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
ELLEN KEY
It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just ...
ELLEN KEY
Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish ...
ELLEN KEY
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in a...
ELLEN KEY
Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is i...
ELLEN KEY
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between...
ELLEN KEY
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY
The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
ELLEN KEY
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others...
ELLEN KEY
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
ELLEN KEY
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
ELLEN KEY
I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity an...
ELLEN DEGENERES
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the cree...
ELLEN KEY
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries...
ELLEN KEY
Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts ...
ELLEN STOFAN
We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.
ELLEN STOFAN
Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of h...
ELLEN GREENE
Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspi...
ELLEN HOPKINS
What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same ti...
ELLEN WONG
I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
ELLEN PAGE
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
ELLEN GLASGOW
Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
ELLEN DEGENERES
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too...
ELLEN HOPKINS
I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatr...
ELLEN DEGENERES
I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.
ELLEN DEGENERES
Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of yo...
ELLEN DEGENERES
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
ELLEN BURSTYN
So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other ...
ELLEN BURSTYN
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate t...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I ha...
ELLEN BURSTYN
She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the fi...
ELLEN BURSTYN
It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
ELLEN BURSTYN
They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for ...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are peo...
ELLEN BURSTYN