Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
SOPHIA LORENLearn 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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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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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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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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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 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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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