Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

Sofia Villani Scicolone

• Stills
• Accepting
• Satisfied
• Glad
• Offers

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• 'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.

  

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• I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

  

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• I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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• I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

  

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• I can't drink anything but chocolate. I don't even like any milk but chocolate. When I eat cereal, I barely touch the white part.

  

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• I don’t want Salman Khan to be remembered as a star, actor. That is not my priority in life.

  

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• Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
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• This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.

  

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• I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

  

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• You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

  

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• You have to invent life.

  

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• I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.

  

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• I don't always see humor in things. Especially when I smash my pinky toe into a coffee table leg in the middle of the night. But sometimes I'll see things, or experience things, that make me go, "Huh, maybe that's a bit."

  

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• Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

  

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• I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

  

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• ...don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

  

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• When I moved to New York, I had nothing. And a friend of mine also had nothing. And he said, 'Hey, come with me to the Marriot Marquis. And if you go to the 30th floor, and you wait by this door, and you sneak in, you can get free food.' And I did that for three years. I was prepared if anyone said, 'Can we see your room key?' to be like, 'Do you know who I am? I'm Bob Marriot's nephew.' Um, so great, I'm glad to be here and have free food again. And I didn't have to sneak in!

  

  Santino Fontana
  • Waiting
  • Moved
  • Glad

• You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Stills
  • Accepting
  • Satisfied