Ability is of little account without opportunity.
LUCILLE BALLLuck? 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.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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I never thought I was funny. I don’t THINK funny.
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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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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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It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
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People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
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It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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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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Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
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Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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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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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
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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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Luck? Luck is hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
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