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

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• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Life
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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.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

  

  Mallory Jansen
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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.

  

  Zach LaVine
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  • Chocolate
  • White

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

  

  Salman Khan
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  • Star
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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.

  

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

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Thinking
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• What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Quote
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• You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.

  

  Questlove
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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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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• You have to invent life.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Life

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

  

  David Dimbleby
  • Tempted
  • Private Parts

• The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Future

• Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

  

  William Penn
  • Father
  • Fall
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• As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.

  

  Nadia Bolz-Weber
  • People
  • World
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• Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there so that not everything is perfectly in unison. It adds a texture you can acquire only from having different voices. The variations lead to interesting quirks. It's an integral part of the Enya sound.

  

  Nicky Ryan
  • Secret
  • Sound
  • Melody

• I worked hard to get stronger and better, and I'm really happy and satisfied.

  

  Nino Schurter
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  • Satisfied
  • Worked

• 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