Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

Sophia Loren

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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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Different Difficult Feeling People Root Yourself
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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Expectation Failure Greatness Judgement Myself People Standard
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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Acceptance Generosity Happiness Life Notice Satisfaction Yourself
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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Aspiration Feeling Jealous Love Misery Wasted Time
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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Best Carry Curiosity Energy Interest Live Necessary Willing Yourself
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Children Mom Thinking Twice
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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Creation Equality Feminism Head Herself Man Woman
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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Exploration Life Mistake Myself Philosophy
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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Age Defeat Fountain Learning Love Mindset People True Yourself Youth
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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Memories Pain Past People Person Understand Yourself
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Beautiful Luck Mom
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Cook Goodness Home Love Yourself
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Alone Children Herself Mom Thinking
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Myself Quality Sex Thinking
You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Born Inspirational Motivational Self Love Star Yourself
Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Beautiful Eyes Material Reflection
The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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Fountain Mindset Yourself Youth
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
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Body Lips Myself Quality Sex Thinking
If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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Beautiful Learning Mindset True Yourself
I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Age Grow Up Myself Unknown
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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Believe Earth Miracle Mission Ourselves Strong
I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Born Myself People Wisdom
I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Skin Way
Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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Beautiful Thinking Yourself
When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
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Alone Attitude Myself Wait Walk Wonderful
I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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Appearance Body Drink Eat Myself Wine
The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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Fantasy Man Weapon Woman

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