Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin
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Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one
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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
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Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.
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God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
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I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
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And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt
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That part of his life was over; and now, lying on the dense mat of grass, he knew in one sense it always had been. But it was fun remembering …
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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
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How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.
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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
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The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.
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I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.
