True happiness is impossible without solitude.
SOPHIA LORENEverything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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 still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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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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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’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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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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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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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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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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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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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. 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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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
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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 eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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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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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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