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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

Sophia Loren

I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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Big Body Funny Injury Run Way
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
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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Advantage Big Born Myself Poverty Wisdom
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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Load Perfection Work Yourself
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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Exercise Grace Street Walk Yourself
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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Beautiful Eyes Feeling Herself Physical Reflection
I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Enough Knowledge Language Myself Woman
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
The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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Appearance Beautiful Cry Eyes Woman
I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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Appearance Body Drink Eat Myself Wine
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
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
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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Children Compare Fact Life War
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.
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Beautiful Brain Forget Learning Need Powder Yourself
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Conversation Ignorance Virtue
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

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

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