Italian Quotes - Page 23

• I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .

  Susan Lucci

  Family, Pavarotti, Heritage

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• There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

  Romano Prodi

  Unhappiness, Terrible, Conditions

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• The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Mean, Fate, Choices

  Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons

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• Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Land, English History

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.

  Diego Della Valle

  Thinking, Government, Self

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• He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Two, Age, Middle

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 3, 1915.

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• I always say to young people, "Get the hell out of the United States." Especially if you're young, like if you're 21 or something. Let's say you don't speak any Italian. You're 21. Everyone's going to want to sleep with you and be nice to you. And the best way to learn a language is to sleep with someone from that country.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Nice, Sleep

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

  Sullivan Stapleton

  Cooking, Style, Recipes

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• Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

  Chelsea Peretti

  Culture, Noses

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• I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

  Charles Lamb

  Music, Pain, Sound

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No nice extreme a true Italian knows;
  But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

  Juvenal

  Nice, Hell, Obedience

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• I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

  Bill Hader

  Character, Names, Way

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• I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and Im a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Nice, Cooking, Bangs

  "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.

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• Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Morning, Ocean, Blue

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2007.

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• I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and then said, "Okay, you're ready." And I wasn't ready. I didn't know how to drive!. But he knew the policeman who gave the test. And that's how I got through.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Teacher, Class, Tests

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate it, but I'm Italian. And that does happen a lot.

  Cameron Esposito

  Appreciate, Doe, Credit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.

  Luciano Benetton

  Years, Two, Littles

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our girl's going to Capri for fun. We've got an Italian island vibe.

  Christian Siriano

  Girl, Fun, Islands

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of 1965, I was immediately impressed by the classic northern Italian architecture that was mixed with futuristic ultra-modern buildings. The classic architecture gave it the heft of old wisdom while the modernistic look inspired hope for the future.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Spring, School, Ucla

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

  Al Pacino

  Emotion, Tradition, Violent

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York.

  David Frost

  New York, Mean, Boston

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• I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

  Woody Allen

  Character, Fictional Character, Closest

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• An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

  Indro Montanelli

  Contradiction, Term, University

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• In the past, people couldn't place me. They thought that I was Danish or English or French. They never got that I am Italian. I'm not typical, maybe because my visual education was very mixed. There was a lot of London in my aesthetic: The Face, i-D, British music, and a lot of British fashion . . . But I really enjoy this contrast.

  Italo Zucchelli

  Fashion, Past, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

  Peter Ustinov

  Blood, Veins

  "Milestones" by Joanna Bake, content.time.com. April 5, 2004.

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