Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

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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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I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.

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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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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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Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

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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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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

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Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

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