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 would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

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

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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

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

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

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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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I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

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People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

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