Italian Quotes - Page 5

• In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.

  Marcella Hazan

  Long, Kitchen, Sauce

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• The Italian economy has been held back for decades.

  Mario Monti

  Economy, Has Beens, Decades

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• I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

  Mario Monti

  Government, Helping, Mentality

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• I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.

  Bruce Bennett

  Europe, Outlook, Feels

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• Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

  Monte Irvin

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  "Giants' pioneer urges outreach to black youths". Interview with John Shea, www.sfgate.com. April 18, 2010.

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• No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

  Nas

  Native American, African American, Matter

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Believe, Heart

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

  Graham Spanier

  Home, Kitchen, Modest

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• I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

  Peter Shilton

  Spicy, Spicy Food, Fairs

  Interview with Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

  Joy Behar

  Thinking, People, Way

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• I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!

  Sophia Loren

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• English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Needs, Dialogue, Theatrical

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• My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.

  Meg Cabot

  Mom, Dad, Watches

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.

  Nadia Giosia

  Rockets, Surgery

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• I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

  Brenda Song

  Mexican, Italian Food

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• In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Littles, Speak, Needed

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• People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Mother, Dad, Father

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.

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• My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  Father, Grew Up, Adopted

  "Being Black and "Difficult" in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.

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• Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. Im crazy about L.A. because at the farmers market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Crazy, Vegetables, Mushrooms

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• I have a profound admiration for Fellini. I met him lately and he's just fantastic. I feel very close to him even though he's very Italian. But his films could have been made in every country. When I say, I feel close to him, then also because we're both born on January 20th.

  David Lynch

  Country, Profound, Admiration

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• ... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sheep

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.301

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• I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, America, Who I Am

  "Martin Scorsese Defends 'The Wolf of Wall Street': 'The Devil Comes With a Smile' (Q&A)". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 31, 2013.

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• People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Thinking, People, Advice

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• [for indicted foreigners] simple expulsion is not enough (...) they must be arrested immediately, tried using a fast-track procedure, and then expelled to serve their sentences in the countries they came from, (...) it isn't right that foreign criminals are being housed in our [Italian] jails.

  Franco Frattini

  Country, Simple, Jail

  Il Giornale Interview, April 28, 2008.

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• My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Mother, Father, Blue

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