Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
SOPHIA LORENJealousy 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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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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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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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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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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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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’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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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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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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