Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
SOPHIA LORENIt’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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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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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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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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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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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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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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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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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