#mp

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#equality #helping #here #honesty #i

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#be kind #bullying #comedy #else #example

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#compassion #contribute #definitely #destroying #energy

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#activist #animal #animal rights #care #compassion

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#because #company #drawn #each #fellow

Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#become #daily #daily life #get #i

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful paintings #been #begun #brought #children

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#goals #shared #well #works #world

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#computer #democracy #educated #hijacked #i

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#judeo-christian #policy #principles #standpoint