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.
SOPHIA LORENI 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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 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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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 still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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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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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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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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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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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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