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 LORENMany 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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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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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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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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