Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
SOPHIA LORENGetting 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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 fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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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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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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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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Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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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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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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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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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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