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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!

Sophia Loren

The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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Beautiful Forget Hairs Right Woman
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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Age Defeat Fountain Learning Love Mindset People True Yourself Youth
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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Body Lips Myself Quality Sex Thinking
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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Beautiful Eyes Feeling Herself Physical Reflection
I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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Appearance Body Drink Eat Myself Wine
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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Animal Funny Myself Walk Yourself
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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Believe Earth Miracle Mission Ourselves Strong
I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Enough Knowledge Language Myself Woman
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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Age Better Discover Exploration Life Mistake Myself Play Safety Time
If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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Beautiful Learning Mindset True Yourself
Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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Beautiful Thinking Yourself
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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Interest Movie Myself
The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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Appearance Beautiful Cry Eyes Woman
I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Skin Way
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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Appearance Body Bully Myself Skin Strange
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
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
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Born Old Sex Time Yourself
True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Happiness Impossible Solitude True Wisdom
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
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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Brain Learning Need Yourself
Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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Commitment Goal Heart Honesty Sacrifice Word
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
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Fashion Purpose Service View Woman
Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
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Ambition Drive Mom Myself Scare World
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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Big Body Funny Injury Run Way
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
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

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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