Lucille Ball Quotes

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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, Inspirational, Relationship

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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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• remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.

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  Success, Taken, Goal

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• I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

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  Happiness, Believe, Happy Life

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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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  Teenager, Thinking, Others Opinions

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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  Good Luck, Hard Work, Opportunity

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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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  Attitude, Hard Work, Makeup

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (pp. 9-10), 1996.

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• The more things you do, the more things you can do.

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  Can Do

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• Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

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  Life, World, Changing The World

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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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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

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  Inspiring, Love Yourself, Fall

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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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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  Fall, Men, Gorgeous

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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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  Life And Love, Work, Want Something

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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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  Funny, Smart, Men

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• I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Don't Give Up

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• In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

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  Reality, Hard Life, Good Things

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• Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if
  you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

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  Struggle, Mind, Important

  Lucille Ball (1997). “Love, Lucy”, p.46, Penguin

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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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  People, Mets, Homosexual

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• It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

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  Love, Cute, Sight

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• Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

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  Fall, Love You, Rest Of Your Life

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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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  Differences, Empathy, Too Much

  Lucille Ball (1997). “Love, Lucy”, p.31, Penguin

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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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  Hate, Divorce, Eye

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