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.
SOPHIA LORENI’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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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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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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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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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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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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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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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And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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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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Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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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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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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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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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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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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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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