I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
SOPHIA LORENThe 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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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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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 no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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