Italian Quotes - Page 7

• When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.

  Nick Offerman

  Years, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

  Leah LaBelle

  Mom, Cooking, Bells

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• I love being Italian.

  Connie Stevens

  Love Is, Being Italian

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• The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

  Barbara Steele

  Crew, Enthusiastic, Warm

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• My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.

  Bill Mauldin

  Reading, Years, Soldier

  Bill Mauldin, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (1978). “Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution”, Government Printing Office

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• Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Party, Political

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• Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

  Indro Montanelli

  Husband, Order, Wife

  "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.

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• The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy as they never wanted to become reconciled to the semi-colonial dependence imposed on them by the so-called Western democracies after the first imperialist war.

  Josip Broz Tito

  War, Yugoslavia, Democracy

  "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.

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• No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Effort, Should, Collapse

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• In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.

  John William Draper

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Father, Knows

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• Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

  Mario Balotelli

  One Day, Proud, Born

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• If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Blood, Feeling Down, Feelings

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

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• Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.

  Amy Poehler

  Son, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was always pretty broad. I've had a couple bad experiences. One time, I showed up late for a gig in Brooklyn at an Italian restaurant. I ran on stage, did my show, and then some guy in the audience threatened to kill me because he didn't like my joke. Instead of talking to him, I just ran off stage. And then, because I was late, the owner of the restaurant threatened to kill me. And I was 19 years old and so scared that I almost started crying. But, I've done every gig you can imagine, in every state.

  Nick Swardson

  Couple, Talking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

  George Weigel

  Elderly, Saint, Shrines

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I listen to everything from, you know, Buddha Bar groove music to international music, Italian music, like Eros. I like very sexy, funky music like Maxwell, Angie Stone, R&B...In my CD player, I've probably got Maxwell, Beyonce, Enrique Iglesias, and kid music...maybe some AC/DC. I mean a little bit of everything. It depends on what I'm doing.

  Brooke Burke

  Sexy, Mean, Kids

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• I’ve spent some time working with a non-Italian designer, I’ve been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!

  Allegra Versace

  Fashion, Creative, Helping

  "Allegra Versace Talks Anorexia, Making A Name For Herself In Fashion" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2011.

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• An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Desire, One Day

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• I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Looks, Graves

  Elizabeth Bowen, Maud Ellman (2012). “The Hotel: A Novel”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

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• [Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

  John Milton

  Numbers, Long, Musical

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• Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Political, Politician

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• In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.

  William C. Brown

  Jobs, War, Hard Times

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• Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Common Sense, Stupidity, Political

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• I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

  Jen Lancaster

  Blood, Half, Able

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