Italian Quotes - Page 30

• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

  Mario Balotelli

  Football, Play, Racism

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• I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

  Hugh Jackman

  Korean Food, Australia Day, Different

  As quoted in "Hugh Jackman Calls Daughter "White Foods Girl", OK Magazine, June 2, 2011.

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• The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

  Mario Batali

  Passion, Population, Endless

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

  George Saintsbury

  Exercise, Atmosphere, Growth

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.44, tredition

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• We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquility the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin. We want revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European war. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to deal with Fascism.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  War, Mean, Army

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Mother, Home

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• I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with racism everyday. I'm the first black to wear the jersey of Italy. I'm not angry, but my life experiencies make me act differently from other people. Then, try to learn more before you criticize me.

  Mario Balotelli

  Angel, Ghana, Two

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• If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

  George Clooney

  Coffee, Home, Character

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• An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

  Edith Wharton

  Music, Artist, Law

  The Age of Innocence ch. 1 (1920)

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• When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity.

  Robert Fisk

  Coffee, Iran, Europe

  Robert Fisk (2001). “Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War”, p.163, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

  Joe Jonas

  Coconuts, Love Making, Chickens

  "Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas: Can They Still be Friends?". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. June 27, 2010.

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• My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

  Brian Andreas

  Grandma, Tin Cans, House

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• If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

  Martin Scorsese

  Mother, Restaurants, Should

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Mar 28, 2014

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• Theres nothing more romantic than Italian food.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Romantic, Romantic Love, Italian Food

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• I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Simple, Oil, Zest

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• Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Years, Trying

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• I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Might, Filmmaker, Seems

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