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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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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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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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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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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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.
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Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.
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It was defiance born of a lack of any hope.
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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.
