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

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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
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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Beautiful Fun Hurt Oneself Yourself
You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Born Inspirational Motivational Self Love Star Yourself
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 better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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Better Coffee Drink Forever Love Man Yourself
The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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Fountain Mindset Yourself Youth
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Children Mom Thinking Twice
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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Commitment Goal Heart Honesty Sacrifice Word
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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Brain Learning Need Yourself
Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Action Believe Count One Liner
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
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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Aspiration Feeling Jealous Love Misery Wasted Time
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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Beautiful Eyes Feeling Herself Physical Reflection
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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Different Difficult Feeling People Root Yourself
Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Beautiful Eyes Material Reflection
True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Happiness Impossible Solitude True 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
The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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Appearance Drink Face Food Health Skin Wrong Yourself
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Myself Quality Sex Thinking
Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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Beautiful Thinking Yourself
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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Face Follow Love Sex Wash
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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Memories Pain Past People Person Understand 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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Expectation Failure Greatness Judgement Myself People Standard
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Beautiful Elegant Maturity Youth
If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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Beautiful Learning Mindset True Yourself
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
I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Born Myself People Wisdom

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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