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I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer.

— Ellen DeGeneres

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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions, by what we do.

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.

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

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