Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.
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What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.
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Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement. The second-rate people who thrive in a tenured environment like nothing more than to surround themselves with more mediocrity and drive out those who might excel and reveal the shortcomings of the entrenched.
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My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.
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As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
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I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.
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Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.
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But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.
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i have no regrets. Regret only makes wrinkles.
