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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.

Sophia Loren

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Born Myself People Wisdom
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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Conversation Enjoyment Life People Positive Thinking Yourself
Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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Bad Believe Enough People Strength Weakness 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
Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
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Ambition Drive Mom Myself Scare World
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Appearance Beautiful Belief Herself Inspirational Woman
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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Born Old Sex Time Yourself
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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Face Follow Love Sex Wash
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
Hate is unfulfilled love.
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Fulfill Hate Love One Liner
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
Isn’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!
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Alive Forget Myself Remember Thinking Wonderful
I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Enough Knowledge Language Myself Woman
True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Happiness Impossible Solitude True Wisdom
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Fashion Purpose Service View Woman
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

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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