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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

Sophia Loren

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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Load Perfection Work Yourself
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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Different Difficult Feeling People Root Yourself
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Beautiful Elegant Maturity Youth
I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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Myself Regret
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
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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Act Burn Cook Gift Love Secret Share
Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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Alive Forget Myself Remember Thinking Wonderful
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Beautiful Luck Mom
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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Bad Believe Enough People Strength Weakness Yourself
I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Born Myself People Wisdom
The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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Angry Build Love Man Relationship
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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Beautiful Fun Hurt Oneself 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
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 think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Myself Quality Sex Thinking
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
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Life Mistake Oneself Pay
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 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
You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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Dreams Fulfill Life Yourself
True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Happiness Impossible Solitude True Wisdom
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Appearance Beautiful Belief Herself Inspirational Woman
You 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.
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Acceptance Generosity Happiness Life Notice Satisfaction 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
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
Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Beautiful Eyes Material Reflection
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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Memories Pain Past People Person Understand Yourself

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