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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.

Sophia Loren

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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Conversation Enjoyment Life People Positive Thinking Yourself
Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
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Beautiful Brain Forget Learning Need Powder Yourself
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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Best Carry Curiosity Energy Interest Live Necessary Willing Yourself
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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Appearance Body Bully Myself Skin Strange
Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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Anxiety Fashion Movie Myself Original Poor Profit Work
Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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Fulfill Inner Joy Live Philosophy Success
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Fashion Purpose Service View Woman
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
The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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Fountain Mindset Yourself Youth
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Age Better Discover Exploration Life Mistake Myself Play Safety Time
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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Believe Earth Miracle Mission Ourselves Strong
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
Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Action Believe Count One Liner
I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Born Myself People Wisdom
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.
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Alone Attitude Myself Wait Walk Wonderful
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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Bad Believe Enough People Strength Weakness Yourself

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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