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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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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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And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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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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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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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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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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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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