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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

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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Difficult Drive Greatness Profession Talent
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
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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Creation Equality Feminism Head Herself Man Woman
Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Beautiful Eyes Material Reflection
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Myself Quality Sex Thinking
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
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
I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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Animal Funny Myself Walk Yourself
Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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Feeling Lose Mom Unknown Yourself
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
You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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Acceptance Generosity Happiness Life Notice Satisfaction Yourself
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
And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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Beautiful Myself Positive Sad Thinking Walk
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
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Beautiful Luck Mom
Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Destroy Explanation Myself Transformation

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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