Italian Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.

  Gianluigi Buffon

  Flags, Fields, Anthem

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• In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Yankees, Rich Or Poor, Drunk

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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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• You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? That's just not enough. Look at us all. What's the common assumption that got us all from there to here? What makes us deserve the ice cream and running shoes and wool Italian suits we have? I mean, I see all of us trying so hard to acquire so much stuff, but I can't help but feeling that we didn't merit it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Morning, Mean

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• In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.

  Carl Zimmer

  Christian, Kings, Sex

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• Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do 'look up' at Sophiatown, and in the evening light, across the blue-grey haze of smoke from braziers and chimneys, against a saffron sky, you see close-packed, red-roofed little houses. ...And above it all you see the Church of Christ the King, its tower visible north, south, east, and west.

  Trevor Huddleston

  Kings, Blue, Umbria

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• When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

  Diego Della Valle

  Central Park, Perfect, Parks

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• I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, Names, People

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• The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

  Jean Edward Smith

  War, Government, Long

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• The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

  Edith Durham

  White, Long, Black

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa— Who knows most, knows least.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Horse, Essence

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1961). “Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien”

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• I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi.

  Ray Romano

  Mother, Kids, Museums

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• Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.

  Benito Mussolini

  Giving, Matter, Return

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• Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

  Benito Mussolini

  People, Suffering, Levels

  "Garlic and Oil: Food and Politics in Italy". Book by Carol F. Helstosky, 2006.

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• I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

  Augustus

  Mean, Agriculture, Cities

  "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

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• There is nothing like a fine Italian sound.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Sound, Fine

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You catch any white man off guard in here right now, you catch him off guard and ask him what he is, he doesn't say he's an American. He either tells you he's Irish, or he's Italian, or he's German, if you catch him off guard and he doesn't know what you're up to. And even though he was born here, he'll tell you he's Italian. Well, if he's Italian, you and I are African even though we were born here.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Born

  Malcolm X (1992). “By Any Means Necessary”, Pathfinder Press (NY)

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• Congratulations to the Italian people for winning the World Cup. ... They won after France's best player got ejected for head butting. That's the closest anyone in a French uniform has come to combat in 60 years.

  Jay Leno

  Congratulations, Winning, Player

  "The Tonight Show", July 11, 2006.

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• I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Team, School

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent.

  Richard Hammond

  Car, Mexican, Lazy

  "Despite Host Controversy, Amazon Takes A Chance On 'Top Gear'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 31, 2015.

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