Italian Quotes - Page 8

• I love being Italian.

  Connie Stevens

  Love Is, Being Italian

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• Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Vote, Rebellious

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

  Peter Weller

  Renaissance, Finishing, Italian Renaissance

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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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• It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in the number of murders, well, it will mean that they have been quite useful in some way or another."

  William C. Brown

  Book, Mean, Men

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• There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Wine, Jugs, World

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• In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Kids, Hair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

  Michael Cerveris

  Song, School, Yale

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• I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

  Dominic Chianese

  Children, Ideas, Radio

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• The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.

  Tony Horwitz

  Grandma, Past, Turkeys

  Tony Horwitz (2008). “A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World”, Henry Holt and Company

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• Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.

  Miranda Hart

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western

  Armand Assante

  Gdp, Modern, Form

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• I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Birth, Grew, Casts

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• Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

  Eva Herzigova

  Beautiful, Nice, Men

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• The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

  Robert Venturi

  Children, Naked, Landscape

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• Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.

  Benito Mussolini

  People, Eating

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• Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

  Tony Visconti

  Christmas, Mom, Dad

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• It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Writing, Son, Garden

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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