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.
SOPHIA LORENThe two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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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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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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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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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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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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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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