Italian Quotes - Page 9

• THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Men, Years

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hillary Clinton was actually inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame yesterday. Hillary said she's very proud of her Irish heritage or her Italian heritage or her Asian heritage. Whatever it takes to seal the deal with you guys. I've got to get into that Oval Office.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Yesterday, Office, Guy

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• Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Cousin, War

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• You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Writing, Want

  “Christopher Lee Talks Lord of the Rings” by Paul Davidson, www.ign.com. May 3, 2001.

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• I do enjoy wearing Japanese and Italian clothing. I also enjoy my blue jeans or tennis shorts and running shoes. I like driving a Porsche because it is an elegant machine and it is a very beautiful experience to drive it. It's magnificently made.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Running, Blue

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• You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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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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• There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

  Omar Sharif

  Play, Needs, Actors

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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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• 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’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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• [On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

  Madame de Stael

  Witty, May, Language

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• Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

  Dario Argento

  Film History, Special, Niche

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