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

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

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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

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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

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

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