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Lucille Ball
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“I think 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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“... remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.”
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“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, sleep sufficiently, work industriously, worship faithfully — and then lie about your age.”
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“There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.”
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“I cured myself of my shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me nearly as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody really gave a damn.”
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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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“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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“I'm not funny. What I am is brave.”
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“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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“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
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“Divorce is defeat.”
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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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“You see much more of your children once they leave home.”
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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Lucille Ball, U.S. actor, comedian, studio executive
(1911 - 1989)
Full name: Lucille Désirée Ball Arnaz Morton.