The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
SOPHIA LORENAfter all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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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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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy 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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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 mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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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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And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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