Italian Quotes - Page 20

• Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your best work.

  Jeremy Scott

  Fashion, Real, Sometimes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet the university said I was one. Anybody who has met a real minority - in the economic sense, not the numerical sense - would understand how ridiculous it is to describe a young man who is already at the university, already well into his studies in Italian and English Renaissance literature, as a minority.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I did my first story for Italian Vogue for Franca Sozzani, she gave me something like 47 full pages, and I was like, That's all? I didn't know any better.

  Roxanne Lowit

  Vogue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Yankees, Rich Or Poor, Drunk

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• They would sort of keep you on your toes that way - that kind of Italian allergic reaction to eagerness. It's very bruta figura, bad form, to be eager. You sort of glide in and have a conversation and work things out, then it takes two days to get up and running.

  Matt Tyrnauer

  Running, Kind, Eagerness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As you know from the Italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. What I can tell you two fish that don't stink, okay, and that's me and the President.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  President, Okay

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Morning, Ocean, Blue

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2007.

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• [If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture as well as the American culture, then we've done something that's really good and supporting these fishermen who are doing the right thing in sustainability . . . paying attention to make sure we don't overfish our world.

  Mario Batali

  Our World, Culture, Attention

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the dichotomy limits between heaven and hell.

  Renzo Rosso

  Tired, Creativity, People

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• The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Engineering

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• Invest in stupidity, its stocks never go down.

  William C. Brown

  Stupidity, Political, Crisis

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• The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

  William C. Brown

  Media, Stupidity, Political

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• I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.

  Nadia Giosia

  Fun, Cake, Comedian

  "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

  David Naughton

  Rome, Film, Wanted

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• I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

  Tyne Daly

  Looks, Opera, Glamorous

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

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• When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

  Monica Bellucci

  Usa, World, Way

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• The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Mean, Fate, Choices

  Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons

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• No nice extreme a true Italian knows;
  But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

  Juvenal

  Nice, Hell, Obedience

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• CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Strong, Adversity, Animal

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.38, 谷月社

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• I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

  Charles Lamb

  Music, Pain, Sound

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

  Chelsea Peretti

  Culture, Noses

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• I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

  Sullivan Stapleton

  Cooking, Style, Recipes

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• The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Kissing, Bangs

  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang "A Note on the Title" (1968)

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• I always say to young people, "Get the hell out of the United States." Especially if you're young, like if you're 21 or something. Let's say you don't speak any Italian. You're 21. Everyone's going to want to sleep with you and be nice to you. And the best way to learn a language is to sleep with someone from that country.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Nice, Sleep

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!

  William C. Brown

  Political, Crisis

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