Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
SOPHIA LORENThere is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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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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There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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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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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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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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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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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
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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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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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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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