Italian Quotes - Page 27

• I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Easter, Thinking, Directors

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• Italian authorities seized $6 trillion worth of fake, worthless U.S. Treasury bonds. Pretty good counterfeit job, too. They look just like the genuine, worthless Treasury bonds.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Fake, Looks

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• I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.

  Thom Filicia

  Thinking, Looks, Furniture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime!

  Stephen Colbert

  Hate, Doe, Monkeys

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• I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, "Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!" And I said, "It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell 'chai-ay-oh.'" Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.

  Teri Garr

  Laughing, Guy, Scripts

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

  Derrick Williams

  Doctors, Smoking, Rooms

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• The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.

  Barbara Cartland

  Girl, Morning, Husband

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• Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent.

  Richard Hammond

  Car, Mexican, Lazy

  "Despite Host Controversy, Amazon Takes A Chance On 'Top Gear'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 31, 2015.

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• Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

  Graydon Carter

  School, Men, Thinking

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• I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world.

  Sasha Cohen

  Japan, Cooking, Quality

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• Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, Guy

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• When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

  Nicolas Cage

  Men, White Man, Sound

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• I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Heart, Matter, Emotion

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• In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!

  Hunter Hayes

  Cities, Two, Towns

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• An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "

  Sergio Leone

  Taken, Men, Rome

  Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. September 1987.

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• The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

  Gregory Corso

  Fighting, Lucky, Saws

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• My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was Caroselli and it was changed in the mid 50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name Caroselli.

  Steve Carell

  Father, Thinking, Names

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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• I'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk.

  Lea Michele

  Curse

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• I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.

  Judy Tenuta

  Half, Polish

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• Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Mean, Thinking, Korean Food

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• The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Lakes, World

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• A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit.

  Cassandra Clare

  Garden, Thinking, Feet

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Th-there," she sobbed. "it dragged him to the Italian gardens. He managed to elude its maw at first, but it harried him through the paths. No matter how much I screamed, it would not put him d-down!" She burst into a fresh wave of tears. "You screamed," will said. "Is that all you did?" "I screamed a great deal,." Tatiana sounded injured. She drew fully away from Will and fixed him with a green gaze. "I see you are as ungenerous as you ever were.

  Cassandra Clare

  Garden, Tears, Green

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• I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and a bunch of guys moaning in Italian. The demon pigeons went nuts. They started flying in circles, running into each other like they wanted to bash their own brains out.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Air, Nuts

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Latin, School, Two

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