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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.

Sophia Loren

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’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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Appearance Body Drink Eat Myself Wine
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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Greatness Himself Love Man Portion
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Beautiful Elegant Maturity Youth
I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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Gossip Place Talk Time Wasted Woman
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
Without 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.
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Ambition Drive Mom Myself Scare World
I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Age Grow Up Myself Unknown
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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Believe Dedication Deserve Discipline Life Reward Sacrifice Stubborn
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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Advantage Big Born Myself Poverty Wisdom
I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Enough Knowledge Language Myself Woman
The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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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.
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Exploration Life Mistake Myself Philosophy
Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Action Believe Count One Liner
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
Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Beautiful Eyes Material Reflection

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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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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