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 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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The more things you do, the more things you can do.

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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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A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

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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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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

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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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