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.
SOPHIA LORENUntil you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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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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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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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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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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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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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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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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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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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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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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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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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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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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