Italian Quotes - Page 29

• I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Mind, Balls

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

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• His [Frank Sinatra] voice defined not only a certain period of time, but America and what America meant to the world. Sinatra grew up, as my grandparents did, when being Italian was very, very prejudice against, but they didn't let it bring them down or use it as an excuse.

  Robert Davi

  Voice, America, Grandparent

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• I'm doing all these interviews with the British press, the Italian press, and others. They all want to talk about this stuff. I don't have a stance; I don't have a go-to thing to say about any of this.

  Paul Beatty

  Want, Stuff, Interviews

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The actors are telling the truth on some level, and people have to believe it. At Cannes, a lot of people said, "Oh, shocking," but this Italian girl said to me, "My god, I just said that to my boyfriend the other night." That's what Lula from Wild at hearts talks about. That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

  Laura Dern

  Girl, Believe, Heart

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• I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate.

  Juliet Aubrey

  Thinking, Musical, Passionate

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

  Connie Francis

  True Friend, Chance, Restaurants

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• Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Hair, Might

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• I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian newspaper cor­respondent, and when he came by to pick me up he asked me if I'd mind going with him first to talk to a young American defector, one Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was staying at the Metropole, an old Czarist hotel just off Kremlin Square.

  Truman Capote

  Night, Squares, Pick Me Up

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Girl, Son, Air

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• Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dream, Winter, Anime

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

  Jeremy Scott

  Speak

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• My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!

  Kendall Jenner

  Dream, Jobs, Would Be

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• We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  House, Proud, Speak

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• I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Father, Taste Buds

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

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• [The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean, he was not looking for a country called India. Europeans were calling that country Hindustan in 1492.... Columbus called the tribal people he met "Indio," from the Italian in dio, meaning "in God."

  Russell Means

  Country, Beach, Native American

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• I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!

  Tom Felton

  Girl, Berries, Half

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• I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

  Martin Scorsese

  Numbers, Pieces, Film

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• The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Grandma, Thinking

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• Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Atheist, People, Spain

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2010

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• Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Dawn, Troops

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• I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

  James Franco

  Mcdonalds, Different, Accents

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• I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

  Robert Mondavi

  Mother, Food, Wine

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• I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.

  Queen Latifah

  Funny, Food, Night

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

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• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  H. L. Mencken

  Music, Baseball, Opera

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• There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, Lunch, Giving

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