Italian Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

  Magnus

  Play, Tennis, World

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• One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.

  Pat Cooper

  Butterfly, People, Singing

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

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• I'm an Italian girl from the south who's very passionate.

  Jessie James Decker

  Girl, Passionate, South

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• I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

  Dolly Parton

  Mexican, Restaurants, Type

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• I've always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It's always been extreme, but in the last few years I've gotten into balance. I don't restrict myself like I used to.

  Nico Tortorella

  School, Kids, Years

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.

  Ne-Yo

  Italian Food, Cooks, Ifs

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  I Can, Knows

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• If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

  Dave Grohl

  Light, Trying, Way

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• The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

  Laura Prepon

  Acting, Firsts, Said

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• The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

  Clive James

  Men, Wife, Firsts

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. January 4, 2016.

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• My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and if I was to even understand what was going on, I had to learn the language fast.

  Clive James

  Beautiful, Men, Talking

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". Interview with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. January 4, 2016.

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• There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Real, Style

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• When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.

  Nick Offerman

  Years, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.

  Bill Mauldin

  Reading, Years, Soldier

  Bill Mauldin, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (1978). “Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution”, Government Printing Office

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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'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you of the fact that before May 2015 there was no overall European agenda on immigration. Nothing, zero. It wasn't until after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean that, in response to an Italian initiative, (Europe) began thinking about setting policies for the registration of refugees, their distribution or their deportation.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Zero, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I really had wanted to learn Italian for a long time. I think ever since - or even maybe even before I had read Dante. And I just sort of had this idea that I wanted to read Dante in Italian. And then in my office, we actually had a class - an Italian class.

  Ann Goldstein

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

  "Translator Behind Elena Ferrante Novels Says Her Job Is To Be An 'Enabler'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

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