If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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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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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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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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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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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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 know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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