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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.

Sophia Loren

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’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
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Life Mistake Oneself Pay
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
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Children Mom Thinking Twice
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
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Appearance Beautiful Belief Herself Inspirational Woman
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
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
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Cook Goodness Home Love Yourself
You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Born Inspirational Motivational Self Love Star Yourself
The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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Appearance Beautiful Cry Eyes Woman
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
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
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
Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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Fade Fortune Luck Moments Opportunity
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
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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Face Follow Love Sex Wash
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
A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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Dog Faith One Liner Woman
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
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
There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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Greatness Himself Love Man Portion
Good food is a celebration of life.
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Celebration Food Goodness Instagram Captions Life One Liner
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Alone Children Herself Mom Thinking
Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Appearance Sex Thinking Yourself
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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Creation Equality Feminism Head Herself Man Woman

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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