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.
SOPHIA LORENI’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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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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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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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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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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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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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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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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