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.
SOPHIA LORENAs far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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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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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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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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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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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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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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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 eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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