Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.
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Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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There's something healing about tears.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either.
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When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.
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I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
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I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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I was starting all over. It's a tough road up here and last year, for whatever reason, I probably deserved it (the criticism).
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In the year 1921, I was successful for the first time in obtaining certain proof that by stimulation of the nerves in a frog's heart, substances were released which to some extent passed into the heart fluid and, when transferred with this into a test heart, caused it to react in exactly the same way as the stimulation of the corresponding nerves.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.
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When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.
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I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
