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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.

Sophia Loren

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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Advantage Big Born Myself Poverty Wisdom
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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Alone Attitude Myself Wait Walk Wonderful
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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Expectation Failure Greatness Judgement Myself People Standard
I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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Eat Fruit Meat Myself Sweet
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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Body Lips Myself Quality Sex Thinking
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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Beautiful Myself Positive Sad Thinking Walk
It’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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Best Carry Curiosity Energy Interest Live Necessary Willing Yourself
Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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Aspiration Feeling Jealous Love Misery Wasted Time
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Myself Quality Sex Thinking
I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Age Grow Up Myself Unknown
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Children Mom Thinking Twice
I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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Appearance Body Drink Eat Myself Wine
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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Animal Funny Myself Walk Yourself
Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Appearance Sex Thinking Yourself
Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Help Live Person Yourself
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 Deep Heart Learning Value
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Fashion Purpose Service View Woman
I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Born Myself People Wisdom
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Beautiful Luck Mom
I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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Myself Regret
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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Commitment Goal Heart Honesty Sacrifice Word
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Conversation Ignorance Virtue
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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Appearance Drink Face Food Health Skin Wrong Yourself
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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Anxiety Fashion Movie Myself Original Poor Profit Work
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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Difficult Drive Greatness Profession Talent
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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Brain Learning Need Yourself
True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Happiness Impossible Solitude True Wisdom

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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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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