Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.
ELLEN POMPEO If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for...
ELLEN POMPEO There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're intere...
ELLEN POMPEO Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great ...
ELLEN POMPEO Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like s...
ELLEN POMPEO This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.
ELLEN POMPEO I haven't publicly said this before, but I do have a crush on him.
ELLEN POMPEO The chemistry between the cast is very important. We're a family and have respect for each other. An...
ELLEN POMPEO And that's one of the most genius roles ever played. So I think a sense of self-doubt somehow transl...
ELLEN POMPEO My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spen...
ELLEN POMPEO Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.
ELLEN POMPEO Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like...
ELLEN POMPEO The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant oth...
ELLEN POMPEO I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
ELLEN POMPEO Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.
ELLEN POMPEO Being a mother is magical.
ELLEN POMPEO I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.
ELLEN POMPEO I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody&...
ELLEN POMPEO Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.
ELLEN POMPEO I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or do...
ELLEN POMPEO I don't like everybody who I see on TV.
ELLEN POMPEO You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.
ELLEN POMPEO I am who I am, a Southie.
ELLEN POMPEO We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls w...
ELLEN POMPEO Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.
MIKE POMPEO To the degree that we can demonstrate support for the Ukrainian government, we can change Putin'...
MIKE POMPEO There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on milita...
MIKE POMPEO The Safe and Affordable Food Labeling Act aims to address unnecessary impediments to feeding the wor...
MIKE POMPEO It speaks to the incredible risk of doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran if American com...
MIKE POMPEO Non-commercial general aviation flights serve as a lifeline to thousands of communities where airlin...
MIKE POMPEO The unmerited fear of genetically modified organism crops threatens scientific advancements in biote...
MIKE POMPEO Feeding the world will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. It will be impossible ...
MIKE POMPEO Some opponents of GMO labeling claim that disclosing genetically modified ingredients will increase ...
MIKE POMPEO We must protect the very things that make America so special - most certainly including our civil li...
MIKE POMPEO Secretary Clinton should be denied access to classified information. Congress must also hold the Sta...
MIKE POMPEO Secretary Clinton was warned repeatedly about her duty to secure classified information and that her...
MIKE POMPEO One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'
MIKE POMPEO Creating a new air traffic control regulator outside of the FAA would be a risky and expensive under...
MIKE POMPEO I have traveled to GTMO and have seen the honorable and professional behavior of the American men an...
MIKE POMPEO Advocates of GMO labeling aren't seeking a warning label. We're simply asking for a factual,...
MIKE POMPEO No one has ever escaped from Guantanamo Bay. It is by far the most secure detention facility in the ...
MIKE POMPEO The detainees at GTMO are treated exceptionally well - so well that some have even declined to be re...
MIKE POMPEO The IRGC's tentacles are well hidden in the Iranian economy, making the risk of becoming entangl...
MIKE POMPEO Less intelligence capacity equals less safety.
MIKE POMPEO Conservatives have deep distrust of government power, so I not only understand their privacy concern...
MIKE POMPEO Russia continues to side with... rogue states and terrorist organizations, following Vladimir Putin&...
MIKE POMPEO I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for ...
MIKE POMPEO In 2012, President Obama was faced with a new Egyptian leader, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherho...
MIKE POMPEO For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is,...
MIKE POMPEO If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for...
MIKE POMPEO To reap the benefits of GMO technology, the U.S. must ensure that decisions about our food system ar...
MIKE POMPEO Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire p...
MIKE POMPEO All of our intelligence agencies, our Department of Defense, are all working to meet this threat. Bu...
MIKE POMPEO When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with infor...
MIKE POMPEO As a result of the billions of dollars flowing into Iran after the JCPOA, the Iranian regime is able...
MIKE POMPEO It is in our interest to crush ISIS, terrorist groups like the al-Nusra front and Ahrar ash-Sham, an...
MIKE POMPEO As a member of Congress, I am part of a large group of elected officials who remain clear-eyed about...
MIKE POMPEO Unfortunately, instead of standing up to Iran, the Obama administration is giving in to the Iranians...
MIKE POMPEO Even if Koch Industries had a financial interest in the Keystone XL pipeline, what possibly could be...
MIKE POMPEO Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei and Assad are two sides of the same terror coin. Letting Assad continu...
MIKE POMPEO Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates ...
MIKE POMPEO My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is no...
MIKE POMPEO An enormous piece of the cost in our health care system today is driven by lifestyle decisions, and ...
MIKE POMPEO Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating a...
MIKE POMPEO Private monopolies run by special interests should not get to raise taxes and set regulatory policy ...
MIKE POMPEO Because of Iran's support for terrorism, disrespect for human rights, and nuclear proliferation,...
MIKE POMPEO Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has alr...
MIKE POMPEO When it comes to reforming the way our skies are regulated, we must be certain that as we work to so...
MIKE POMPEO To affordably feed the next billion people, we must have higher-yielding crops with even greater nut...
MIKE POMPEO The Islamic State has apparently gained control of several dozen kilograms of radioactive material f...
MIKE POMPEO It would not be permissible for you to build a home and not let law enforcement in if they had a sea...
MIKE POMPEO By withholding critical details and stonewalling congressional inquiries, President Obama seems to b...
MIKE POMPEO I am a West Point graduate and an Army veteran.
MIKE POMPEO Poll after poll shows that consumers want the right to know what's in their food and how it'...
MIKE POMPEO Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love ...
MIKE POMPEO To say the U.S. government is targeting U.S. persons, to listen to their phone calls and read their ...
MIKE POMPEO The military tribunals currently underway at Guantanamo Bay create a clear legal process, as affirme...
MIKE POMPEO I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it bri...
ELLEN OCHOA My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need ...
ELLEN KLAGES There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life ...
ELLEN GOODMAN I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we...
ELLEN DEGENERES You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life fami...
ELLEN BARKIN I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and ...
ELLEN GILCHRIST My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. T...
ELLEN TAUSCHER I go to a lot of plays. I tend to prefer the off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway more than the Broadwa...
ELLEN CHENOWETH I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure bl...
ELLEN PAGE With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounde...
ELLEN ULLMAN What are your drawn to?"
...
"Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll writ...
ELLEN SUSSMAN I would love for the world to be happier.
ELLEN DEGENERES I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me...
ELLEN DEGENERES So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying i...
ELLEN DEGENERES If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wan...
ELLEN DEGENERES The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think peop...
ELLEN DEGENERES Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
ELLEN DEGENERES Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We ...
ELLEN BARKIN I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked bad...
ELLEN POTTER Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and bu...
ELLEN ULLMAN Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must a...
ELLEN KEY Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.
ELLEN GILCHRIST Innocence eroded into nightmare.
All because of very bad touch.
Love, corrupted.
ELLEN HOPKINS I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am t...
ELLEN BARKIN EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust ...
ELLEN MALCOLM And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happe...
ELLEN DEGENERES If you’ve managed to do one good thing,
the ocean doesn’t care.
But when Newton’s ap...
ELLEN BASS Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment.
ELLEN HOPKINS Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
ELLEN DEGENERES The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens....
ELLEN DEGENERES We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with eac...
ELLEN GOODMAN to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held d...
ELLEN BASS I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I...
ELLEN DEGENERES Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.
ELLEN DEGENERES I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual....
ELLEN DEGENERES Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear a...
ELLEN DEGENERES Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should reali...
ELLEN DEGENERES It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.
ELLEN DEGENERES If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.
ELLEN DEGENERES If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birt...
ELLEN DEGENERES You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and sl...
ELLEN DEGENERES Haiku sounds like I'm
Saying hi to someone named
Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.
ELLEN DEGENERES Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:
Yes.
Yes.
No.
One time in high school. ELLEN DEGENERES Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help som...
ELLEN DEGENERES Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim thr...
ELLEN DEGENERES The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yours...
ELLEN DEGENERES So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless y...
ELLEN DEGENERES Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all di...
ELLEN DEGENERES Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't ev...
ELLEN DEGENERES Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also ha...
ELLEN DEGENERES Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for brea...
ELLEN DEGENERES I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clappin...
ELLEN DEGENERES I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and...
ELLEN DEGENERES It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
ELLEN DEGENERES It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
ELLEN DEGENERES Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neigh...
ELLEN DEGENERES What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we ...
ELLEN DEGENERES True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is ab...
ELLEN DEGENERES Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
ELLEN DEGENERES When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...
ELLEN DEGENERES My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the c...
ELLEN DEGENERES Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if peo...
ELLEN DEGENERES This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize lov...
ELLEN HOPKINS If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should u...
ELLEN DEGENERES I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful ...
ELLEN DEGENERES Girls get screwed.
Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of...
ELLEN HOPKINS When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice ...
ELLEN GLASGOW Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
ELLEN PARR No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means...
ELLEN KEY All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offeri...
ELLEN KEY All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
ELLEN GLASGOW I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to ...
ELLEN GOODMAN No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day...
ELLEN GLASGOW No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it ...
ELLEN GLASGOW You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She...
ELLEN DEGENERES We cannot look at the child who has been raped and offer the theological maxim that God will draw so...
ELLEN VAUGHN Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abun...
ELLEN VAUGHN He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
ELLEN GLASGOW Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
ELLEN GLASGOW What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at r...
ELLEN GOODMAN Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
ELLEN GLASGOW People tend to remember my performances, not me.
ELLEN BARKIN There
ELLEN GOODMAN He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent...
ELLEN GLASGOW Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffec...
ELLEN KEY Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
ELLEN BARKIN I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, So...
ELLEN DEGENERES Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
ELLEN DEGENERES Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.
ELLEN SIMON Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
ELLEN GOODMAN I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is c...
ELLEN DEGENERES We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.
ELLEN WOOD Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
ELLEN GLASGOW Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my ...
ELLEN DEGENERES Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.
ELLEN HERMAN The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
ELLEN GOODMAN Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that yo...
ELLEN GOODMAN Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
ELLEN ULLMAN The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, a...
ELLEN KEY It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horri...
ELLEN GREENE The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhar...
ELLEN DEGENERES The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anyb...
ELLEN DEGENERES The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents.
ELLEN OCHOA It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New...
ELLEN BARKIN It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hel...
ELLEN BURSTYN People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
ELLEN DEGENERES The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the ...
ELLEN DEGENERES No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for th...
ELLEN KEY 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