Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
SOPHIA LORENBeing 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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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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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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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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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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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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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 don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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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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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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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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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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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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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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