Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
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You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
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In manliness he will greet my trouble, Should I be bled, I should evidently get better; Truly I saw no one before, who saw not in me Every indisposition, he will cultivate his business.
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A mother’s traditional role prepared her to love her family by being with the family she loved.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
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Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
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Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
