Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
SOPHIA LORENLearn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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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 know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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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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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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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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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 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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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