Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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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 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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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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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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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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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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