Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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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. She began her career in stand-up comedy in the early 1980s, gaining national attention with a 1986 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. She starred in the television sitcoms...

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The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.

—Ellen DeGeneres

I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me—they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today, and we don't know where the hell she is.

—Ellen DeGeneres

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

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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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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

Ask advice only of your equals.

—Danish Proverb

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

—Brendan Francis

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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