Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
LUCILLE BALLOne 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.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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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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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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Responsibility is the ability to respond.
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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
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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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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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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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Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
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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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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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