It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
SOPHIA LORENLuck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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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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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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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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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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It’s necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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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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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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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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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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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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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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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