I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls, and they say, "Because it's such a beautiful animal. " There you go. Well, I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her.

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Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( də-JEN-ər-əs; born January 26, 1958), is an American comedian, actress, television host, writer, and producer.

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Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

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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.

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Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.

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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.

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I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.

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It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same: no recognition of rights — only murder in one form or another.

—John Muir

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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. When man learns better, he will learn to befriend even these. Today he does not even know how to befriend a man of a different religion or from a different country.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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It was quite incomprehensible to me …why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed me goodnight, I used to add silently a prayer that I had composed myself for all living creatures. It ran thus: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace. "

—Albert Schweitzer

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Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.