Italian Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

  Nicolas Cage

  Men, White Man, Sound

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• My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was Caroselli and it was changed in the mid 50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name Caroselli.

  Steve Carell

  Father, Thinking, Names

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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• Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

  Graydon Carter

  School, Men, Thinking

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• The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

  Gregory Corso

  Fighting, Lucky, Saws

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• Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, Guy

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• I'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk.

  Lea Michele

  Curse

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• I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Heart, Matter, Emotion

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• Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Hair, Might

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• Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crosses

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• My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Mother, Father, Boys

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• My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration.

  Jeremy Miller

  Grandmother, One Day, Want

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• I studied Italian five hours a day for many months to ensure I could communicate with the players, media and fans. [Claudio] Ranieri had been in England for five years and still struggled to say 'good morning' and 'good afternoon.'

  Jose Mourinho

  Morning, Player, Media

  "Italy v England: 10 Classic Jose Mourinho Quotes", www.goal.com. February 23, 2009.

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• For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

  Howard K. Smith

  America, Paradise, Peasants

  Howard K. Smith (1951). “The State of Europe”

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• I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.

  Judy Tenuta

  Half, Polish

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• Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us--the Irish!

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Males, Speak, Masters

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• The actors are telling the truth on some level, and people have to believe it. At Cannes, a lot of people said, "Oh, shocking," but this Italian girl said to me, "My god, I just said that to my boyfriend the other night." That's what Lula from Wild at hearts talks about. That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

  Laura Dern

  Girl, Believe, Heart

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• Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Girl, Son, Air

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