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.
SOPHIA LORENWithout 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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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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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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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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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 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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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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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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