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That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#bad #books #children #difficult #down

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. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#been #brought #happy #i #laughter

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#busy #busy person #done #more #person

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. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#afraid #anything #else #hard #hard work

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#decided #divorce #how #i #i love

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

#divorce #eyes #failure #hate #i

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#big #caught #flies #get #laws

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#children #everything #grow #happened #i

When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone. ↗

— Florence Ballard

#always #dream #fantastic #i #i always

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#again #boring #conforming #ever #everything