Italian Quotes - Page 6

• My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

  Harry Lloyd

  Parent, Polish, Knows

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• My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Mom, Fashion, Boys

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• I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

  Michael Imperioli

  New York, Roles, Actors

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• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  Barry McGuire

  Should Have, Years, Stealing

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• At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

  Jean Chretien

  Dollars, Boards, Canada

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Latin, School, Speaks French

  "National Book Festival: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' Novelist Alexander McCall Smith". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 19, 2008.

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• The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Body, Painting, Prelude

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• I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.

  Giuliana Sgrena

  Government, People, Occupation

  "Kidnapped reporter begs Italy to withdraw" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2005.

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• I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

  Tyler Posey

  Mean, Race, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

  Donna Leon

  Loyalty, Cities, Affection

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• I am very proud to be Italian.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Proud

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• There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. We're very closely related.

  Bryan Sykes

  Race, Dna, Greek

  "Does God value one race above others?". The Watchtower, July 01, 2011.

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• Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Past, Evil, Republic

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• Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

  Indro Montanelli

  Rare Occasion, Offers, Occasions

  "il Giornale nuovo" Newspaper, (p. 1), August 20, 1977.

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• I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Mother, Islands, Want

  "Actress Elizabeth Olsen Travels with Sea Salt". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. October 4, 2013.

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• Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.

  Indro Montanelli

  Nice, Names, Political

  Preface to "Il Pollaio delle Libertà" by Marco Travaglio, Vallecchi, 1995.

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• Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

  Rocky Marciano

  Boys, Blood, Two

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• The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

  Edmund White

  School, Past, Europe

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Genuine, Articles, Seems

  Playboy interview, November 1994.

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• As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.

  Debi Mazar

  Husband, Variation, Matter

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

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• I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

  Peter Weller

  Renaissance, Finishing, Italian Renaissance

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• There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

  Magnus

  Play, Tennis, World

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• There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

  Alfred Molina

  Actors, Inspired, Incredibles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

  Aida Turturro

  New York, Sides, My Family

  "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

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• Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Would Be, Heritage, Common

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