Many 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.
SOPHIA LORENAs far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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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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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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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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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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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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