Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

Sofia Villani Scicolone

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• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • School
  • Present

• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Reality

• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • School
  • Prepared
  • Degree

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • School
  • Think

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • School
  • Acting
  • Doing

• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Happy
  • Reality
  • Happiness

• Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Reality
  • Wish
  • Face

• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Remember

• I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did. Then when I was around 15, I did my first movie.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • School
  • Movie
  • Father

• I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • World
  • Real
  • School

• But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

  

  Sally Ride
  • School
  • High
  • Space

• When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • High
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • School

• The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • True
  • Reality

• When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• A lot of people at the highest level, I never listened to. It was hard for me to listen to a whole lot of stuff. It didn't get there for me. Al Green, who's maybe my favorite male singer - to me, Al Green sounds like a saxophone player.

  

  Jaimoe
  • People
  • Player
  • Green

• However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

  

  David Douglass
  • Earth

• When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for 'Popworld' and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Lost
  • Opinion
  • Model

• There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Beautiful
  • Powerful
  • Unique

• Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road you choose to pursue.

  

  Ashley Bryan
  • Road
  • Successful
  • Imagine

• It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • School
  • Reality
  • Mistake