I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

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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. Lucille Ball

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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. Lucille Ball

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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 falls into line.

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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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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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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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Now get the hell out of here and go change 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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