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.
SOPHIA LORENWhen 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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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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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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 two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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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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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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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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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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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 firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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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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