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.
SOPHIA LORENThere 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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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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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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 firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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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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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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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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