Lucille Ball Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
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“There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.”
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“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
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“Love yourself first and everything falls into line.”
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“Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.”
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“I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.”
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“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.”
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“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”
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“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
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“I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.”
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“Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”
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“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
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“Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.”
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“I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.”
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“Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.”
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“You see much more of your children once they leave home.”
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“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.”
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“I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.”
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“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
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“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”
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“The more things you do, the more things you can do.”
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“I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.”
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“A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.”
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“How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.”
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“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.”
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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
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“Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.”
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“Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?”
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“I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.”
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