Italian Quotes - Page 18

• I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

  Jose Mourinho

  Thinking, Easy, Managers

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• I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue.

  Adriana Lima

  Vogue, One Time, Just One

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• I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and then said, "Okay, you're ready." And I wasn't ready. I didn't know how to drive!. But he knew the policeman who gave the test. And that's how I got through.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Teacher, Class, Tests

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

  William Golding

  Latin, Communication, Fighting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.

  Gianluigi Buffon

  Flags, Fields, Anthem

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• There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I really don't understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.

  John Cole

  Party, Agreement, Years

  "You’ll Never Get This 21 Minutes Of Your Life Back" by John Cole, www.balloon-juice.com. February 5, 2009.

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• Nearly all Italian officers speak French.

  Hugh Dalton

  Talking, Speaks French, Officers

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• The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.

  Erwin Rommel

  Soldier, World, Impressed

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• I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.

  Emmanuel Petit

  Football, Wall, Player

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• Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

  Benito Mussolini

  Sheep, Race, People

  "Fascism and Democracy in the Human Mind : A Bridge Between Mind and Society" by Israel W. Charny, (p. 23), 2006.

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• New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York.

  David Frost

  New York, Mean, Boston

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• Bernie Sanders is like those liberal members of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII, or of the Italian Fascist movement during Mussolini. They'd do much for their own workers and peasants, socially... as long as funds were flowing in from the countries plundered by their imperialism.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, Party, Long

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Men, Two, Good Woman

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• 1961 was when I was really into clothes. I left school at 15 and started copying a bloke who used to go up on the train to London with me; Leslie, I think his name was. He was like, top mod of his own area. He wore Italian jackets with white linen jeans. Boy, was that cool! I mean, that's in style now - it's very much the L.A. look. But he was wearing it then, and it looked supercool.

  David Bowie

  School, Mean, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love strong flavors too. Like I don't mind if it looks clean and clear and you know what you are eating if it has Italian, Chinese or Japanese flavor I love them all.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Strong, Chinese, Mind

  Source: seriesandtv.com

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• It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Doubt, Vices, Esperanto

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• No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

  Walter Pater

  Renaissance, Ancient, Christianity

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on Warped Tour I got this really good tan and I was like, bummer.

  Gerard Way

  Years, Half, Lasts

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• What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

  Mack McLarty

  White, House, Political

  "Panetta and Petraeus" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing.

  Colin Firth

  Love You, Voice, Doubt

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• Week before that, I was out in Italy
  Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me

  Pharrell Williams

  Heart, Hip Hop, Week

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• 'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone else do it. Maybe that's why I married an Italian...!

  Colin Firth

  Rome, Watches, Want

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• In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.

  Luciano Benetton

  Years, Two, Littles

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate it, but I'm Italian. And that does happen a lot.

  Cameron Esposito

  Appreciate, Doe, Credit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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