Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.
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September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
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That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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Teamwork is a strategic decision.
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.
