Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.
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My car broke down just the other day, I called triple A, they came and towed me away!
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.
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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
