Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
SOPHIA LORENWithout my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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