I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
SOPHIA LORENWhere youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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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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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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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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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 know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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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 two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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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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