I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
SOPHIA LORENYou 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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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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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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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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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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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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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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