Italian Quotes - Page 15

• If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Blood, Feeling Down, Feelings

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

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• Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Political, Politician

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• Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Party, Political

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• In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.

  William C. Brown

  Jobs, War, Hard Times

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• Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Common Sense, Stupidity, Political

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• What's the advantage to have hundreds of words to define stupidity, when the essence is always the same.

  William C. Brown

  Essence, Stupidity, Political

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• I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• You get typecast. You have to find a niche in this business. So, the roles that I got cast in were the Latina or the Italian spitfires. The woman with a passion and the woman who didn't want to listen to anyone, did everything her own way, very self-willed.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Passion, Self, Way

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Only eliminating all pains in the ass the real mild and gentle man can live in peace.

  William C. Brown

  Pain, Real, Men

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• It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in the number of murders, well, it will mean that they have been quite useful in some way or another."

  William C. Brown

  Book, Mean, Men

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• Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Vote, Rebellious

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• I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

  Jen Lancaster

  Blood, Half, Able

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• No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Effort, Should, Collapse

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• I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Mother, Islands, Want

  "Actress Elizabeth Olsen Travels with Sea Salt". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. October 4, 2013.

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• I am very proud to be Italian.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Proud

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• Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

  Donna Leon

  Loyalty, Cities, Affection

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• I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

  Tyler Posey

  Mean, Race, Play

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

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• The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

  Barbara Steele

  Crew, Enthusiastic, Warm

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• I love being Italian.

  Connie Stevens

  Love Is, Being Italian

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• Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Would Be, Heritage, Common

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• I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

  Aida Turturro

  New York, Sides, My Family

  "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

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• There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

  Alfred Molina

  Actors, Inspired, Incredibles

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

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• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  Barry McGuire

  Should Have, Years, Stealing

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• As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.

  Debi Mazar

  Husband, Variation, Matter

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

  Peter Weller

  Renaissance, Finishing, Italian Renaissance

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