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.
SOPHIA LORENBeauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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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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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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There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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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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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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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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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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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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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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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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