I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
SOPHIA LORENNothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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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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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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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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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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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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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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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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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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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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