I used to pass by a large computer system with the feeling that it represented the summed-up knowledge of human beings. It reassured me to think of all those programs as a kind of library in which our understanding of the world was recorded in intricate and exquisite detail.


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ELLEN DEGENERES
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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