Italian Quotes - Page 25

• In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

  Wim Wenders

  Country, Years, Territory

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Eyebrows, Community, British

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.

  Benito Mussolini

  Government, Order, People

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• I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

  Debi Mazar

  Queens, Husband, Thinking

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

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• A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Play, Apes

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.334, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime!

  Stephen Colbert

  Hate, Doe, Monkeys

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• The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.

  Barbara Cartland

  Girl, Morning, Husband

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• The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

  Robert Loggia

  Mafia, Way, Different

  Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

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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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• I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there were food fairies that came at night.

  Ray Romano

  Night, House, Fairy

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam

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• The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta.

  David James

  Stars, Clubs, England

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