Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.
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I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
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Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.
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This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.
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Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.
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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
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One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.
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Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.
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I'm going forward, so my clothing line is kind of the physicalization of that. The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about.
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Everyone in their car needs love.
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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
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Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.
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All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
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Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.
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Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
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If you want something bad enough, take the steps needed to make it happen, no matter how long it takes. Sometimes you get lucky and can skip some steps, but most of the time you can't. The secret to achieving any goal is nothing more than putting in the necessary time and effort.
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[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.
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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
