Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
SOPHIA LORENI 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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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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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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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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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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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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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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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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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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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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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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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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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