Ability is of little account without opportunity.
LUCILLE BALLSome of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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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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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.
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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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Luck? Luck is hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
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I never thought I was funny. I don’t THINK funny.
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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 believe that we’re as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
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Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
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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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