Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
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I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
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In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.
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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
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O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
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We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
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It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.
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It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.
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My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.
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The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'
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The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.
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You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.
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I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.
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The American public does not know poets exist.
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Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.
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Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
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I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!
