Sophia Loren Quotes

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Sophia Loren

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 20, 1934

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

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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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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

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Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

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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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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

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If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

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Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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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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There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

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You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

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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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Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don't starve, because I eat very much.

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I am against all war.

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