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.
LUCILLE BALLKnowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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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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Responsibility is the ability to respond.
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I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
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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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Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
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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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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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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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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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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
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It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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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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