Italian Quotes - Page 4

• Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  Abel Ferrara

  Heart, Yuppies, Mulberry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Offering, Shopping, Lines

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• I'm away so much I've had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver and bacon, and an Italian mate taught me how to make a mean puttanesca sauce.

  Ray Winstone

  Mean, Sauce, Taught

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• My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

  Claire Forlani

  Years, Parent, Four

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• The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always dealing with ghosts from the past and the looming dark presence of the Vatican.

  Chiara Barzini

  Beautiful, Dark, Past

  "Go Forth (vol. 5)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. November 21, 2012.

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• [On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

  Madame de Stael

  Witty, May, Language

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• And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Children, Years, Facts

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Men, Years

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• I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

  Eva Herzigova

  French Love, Cuisine

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• Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Taken, Food

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Philosophy, Roots

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• You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Helping, Common, Language

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• I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

  Benito Mussolini

  Believe, Function, I Believe

  Benito Mussolini (2012). “My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

  Diane Cilento

  Mother, Facts, Married

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• Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.

  Otto Skorzeny

  Good Faith, Partisans, Decided

  "Scoop : An Historical Adventure" by James H. Walters, (p. 32), 2006.

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• Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

  Marcella Hazan

  Art, Age, May

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• It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

  Alice Hamilton

  Believe, Europe, Chicago

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.93, Read Books Ltd

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• 80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.

  Marcella Hazan

  Cooking, Done, Italian Cooking

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• I've noticed that girls between like 20 and 30 seem to know 'Can't Hardly Wait.' I got the goth kids who know 'Buffy.' I got this wide spectrum of people who range from like 8 to 13 who seem to know 'Scooby-Doo.' Then I get the international people who seem to know 'Austin Powers' and 'The Italian Job.

  Seth Green

  Girl, Jobs, Kids

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• The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

  Rupert Everett

  Wall, Years, Trying

  "I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

  Robert Englund

  Venice, Festivals, Comedy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.

  Joey Fatone

  Fun, Dad, Old School

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born in Japan, so for me, Uniqlo is a family brand. My granny used to wear Uniqlo. And my Italian dad wore Uniqlo. I wore Uniqlo, of course.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Dad, Japan, Used

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• If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

  Jason Bateman

  Gay, People, Complaining

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• A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

  Anibal Cavaco Silva

  President, Should, Partners

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