Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
SOPHIA LORENGetting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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