Italian Quotes - Page 12

• I’ve spent some time working with a non-Italian designer, I’ve been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!

  Allegra Versace

  Fashion, Creative, Helping

  "Allegra Versace Talks Anorexia, Making A Name For Herself In Fashion" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

  George Weigel

  Elderly, Saint, Shrines

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Father, Knows

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• Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

  Dario Argento

  Film History, Special, Niche

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• There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

  Omar Sharif

  Play, Needs, Actors

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• There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Music, Expression, Mind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1865). “Agnes of Sorrento”, p.258

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• Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.

  Amy Poehler

  Son, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was always pretty broad. I've had a couple bad experiences. One time, I showed up late for a gig in Brooklyn at an Italian restaurant. I ran on stage, did my show, and then some guy in the audience threatened to kill me because he didn't like my joke. Instead of talking to him, I just ran off stage. And then, because I was late, the owner of the restaurant threatened to kill me. And I was 19 years old and so scared that I almost started crying. But, I've done every gig you can imagine, in every state.

  Nick Swardson

  Couple, Talking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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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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• I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything.

  Pauly D

  Tanning, Lifestyle, Family Friends

  "Jersey Shore. A New Family. Season 1", 2009 - 2012.

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• My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  Cousin, Children, Father

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

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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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• [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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• I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

  Morena Baccarin

  Party, Avid, Littles

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

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• I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

  Leah LaBelle

  Mom, Cooking, Bells

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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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• Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

  Mario Balotelli

  One Day, Proud, Born

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

  Marcella Hazan

  Cooking, Done, Italian Cooking

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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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• 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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• I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of faith, love of family, love of country. I took pride in our Italian American heritage and to be the first woman speaker of the House and the first Italian American speaker of the House, it's quite thrilling for me.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Pride, Family Love

  Source: www.nbcnews.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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