Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
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I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
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I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.
