Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
SOPHIA LORENA woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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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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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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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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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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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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The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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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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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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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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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 think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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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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