Italian Quotes - Page 17

• I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Daughter, Heart, Heritage

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• A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.

  James Fenton

  Happy Times, Interesting, Florence

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• She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Sports, Car

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• Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

  Irving Babbitt

  Humane

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

  Mario Batali

  Doors, Expression, Punctuation Marks

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• Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

  John Berger

  Art, Space, Doors

  "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• My style in Italian is very old-style.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Style

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• I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Clever, Smart, Stupid

  "This much I know: Andrea Bocelli" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Japan, Talking, Cooking

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• My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

  Dominic Chianese

  Father, Believe, Watches

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• I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

  Lee Child

  Term, Sicilian, Generic

  "Lee Child's Los Angeles". Interview with York Membery, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

  Diablo Cody

  My Boyfriend, Jersey, New Jersey

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• All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Numbers, People, Film

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

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• My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Kitchen, My Favorite

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• I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Children, What Matters, Cities

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• As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

  Johnny Ramone

  Hollywood Films, Might, Horror

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Sep 19, 2014

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• Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Fancy, Ingredients, Fussy

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• I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Real, Men, People

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• I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

  Alexander Payne

  Film, Sideways, 1960s

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• All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'

  Apolo Ohno

  Nice, Men, Long

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• In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

  Jose Mourinho

  Way, Imagine, Follow Me

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• My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  Cousin, Children, Father

  "Being Black and 'Difficult' in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.

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• What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Dog, Philadelphia, Islands

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• I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Littles, Speak

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• I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Kitchen, Meat, Way

  "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

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