Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.
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All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.
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Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.
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Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
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If someone writes something shitty and you actually address them, most of the time they're just like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a big fan." And they're really nice people. When you're on the Internet, it's people's first instinct to just go after people.
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I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
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The poets are wrong of course. But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
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The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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I have seen businesses and government come together to provide women entrepreneurs with the training they need to better access markets, take advantage of trade agreements, and in the process grow businesses, jobs, and GDP. These are partnerships that transform lives.
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I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
