Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
SOPHIA LORENTrue happiness is impossible without solitude.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
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Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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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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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
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