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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.

Sophia Loren

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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Children Compare Fact Life War
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Beautiful Elegant Maturity Youth
I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Age Grow Up Myself Unknown
I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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Believe Dedication Deserve Discipline Life Reward Sacrifice Stubborn
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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Bad Believe Enough People Strength Weakness Yourself
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Beautiful Luck Mom
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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Animal Funny Myself Walk Yourself
Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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Commitment Goal Heart Honesty Sacrifice Word
If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
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Different Difficult Feeling People Root Yourself
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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Expectation Failure Greatness Judgement Myself People Standard
Without 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.
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Ambition Drive Mom Myself Scare World
True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Happiness Impossible Solitude True Wisdom
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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Alive Forget Myself Remember Thinking Wonderful
Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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Feeling Lose Mom Unknown Yourself
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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Born Old Sex Time Yourself
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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Creation Equality Feminism Head Herself Man Woman

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