Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
SOPHIA LORENI 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.
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 was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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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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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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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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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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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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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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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 was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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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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I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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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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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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