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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.

Lucille Ball

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
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Recognition Television World
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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Age Eat Funny Honesty Live Lying Secret Stay Young
Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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Children Happiness Parent Satisfaction
Luck? Luck is hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
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Hard Work Luck Opportunity
I never thought I was funny. I don’t THINK funny.
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Funny Thinking
Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
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Habit Life Preparation Situation
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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Death Love Reality
People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
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Comedy People Teaching
It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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Funny Love See Time
I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
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Myself Transformation Years
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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Confidence Funny Important Inspirational
I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
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Brave Character Funny
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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Children Funny Home Leaving See
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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Fools Stupid Try
Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
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Gift People Reading
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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Divorce Eyes Failure Hate Life Worst

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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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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