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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.

Sophia Loren

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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Alone Children Herself Mom Thinking
I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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Interest Movie Myself
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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Age Defeat Fountain Learning Love Mindset People True Yourself Youth
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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Expectation Failure Greatness Judgement Myself People Standard
I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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Eat Fruit Meat Myself Sweet
The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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Appearance Beautiful Cry Eyes Woman
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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Beautiful Brain Forget Learning Need Powder Yourself
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
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Body Lips Myself Quality Sex Thinking
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
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Born Old Sex Time Yourself
You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Born Inspirational Motivational Self Love Star Yourself
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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Alive Forget Myself Remember Thinking Wonderful
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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Appearance Body Bully Myself Skin Strange
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Conversation Ignorance Virtue
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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Acceptance Beautiful Confidence Feeling Order Responsibility
The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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Appearance Drink Face Food Health Skin Wrong Yourself
Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Action Believe Count One Liner
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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Big Body Funny Injury Run Way
There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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Happiness Job Work Yourself
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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Memories Pain Past People Person Understand Yourself
Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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Feeling Lose Mom Unknown Yourself
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Life Mistake Oneself Pay
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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Best Carry Curiosity Energy Interest Live Necessary Willing Yourself
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Cook Goodness Home Love Yourself
Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Destroy Explanation Myself Transformation
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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Act Burn Cook Gift Love Secret Share
Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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Best Feeling Goodness Herself Make Up Skin Woman
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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Better Coffee Drink Forever Love Man Yourself

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