Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
SOPHIA LORENIsn’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!
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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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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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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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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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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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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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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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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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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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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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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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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
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