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.
SOPHIA LORENSex 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full 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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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 girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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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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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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