I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
SOPHIA LORENI still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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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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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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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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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!
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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