Italian Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

  Jack Kemp

  Wife, President, Care

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• I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

  Nicole Trunfio

  Black, Quality, Lace

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• My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.

  Lea Michele

  Mother, Cousin, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the '70s and '80s in Brooklyn, East Flatbush. It was culturally diverse: You had Italian culture, American culture, the Caribbean West Indian culture, the Hasidic Jewish culture. Everything was kind of like right there in your face. A lot of violence, you know, especially toward the '80s the neighborhood got really violent, but it made me who I am, it made me strong.

  Michael K. Williams

  Strong, Growing Up, Who I Am

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

  Gore Vidal

  Paris, Novelists, Generations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Garden

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• The toughest nights when I was a young, unknown comedian were opening for these real old-time Italian singers. I'm like Grace Jones to them. "This guy is nuts-talking about socks. Where's the wife jokes, where's the fat jokes?"

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Real, Night

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• We talked to Sergei Bodrov who did "Mongel" who I thought was incredible. There was a lot of people who've done a lot of things that I really appreciate and then you go back to the Italian spaghetti westerns that our spaghetti westerns were based off of so I've seen everything.

  Josh Brolin

  People, Appreciate, Done

  "Josh Brolin On Set Interview JONAH HEX – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2010.

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• I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Horse, War, Men

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• There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can see, something is lost in the translation of this pithy expression: there is great similarity in both the spelling and the pronunciation of the original saying, but these get diluted once they are put in English dress. Even the translation of this proverb illustrates its truth!

  Daniel Wallace

  Mean, Biblical, Expression

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• The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.

  David Coleman

  Soccer, Football, Victory

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• Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as a hat within the year.

  Warren Ellis

  Years, Two, Nurse

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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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