Italian Quotes
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Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.
Diego Della Valle
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I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
Daniel Handler
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My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The cooking standards for Italian food are less demanding than for French. All you need are some fried mozzarella and five pastas, and you're in business.
Danny Meyer
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What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.
Caitlin Flanagan
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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
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My Roman girlfriend translates bits from Italian into English. It is sublime.
Francesca da Rimini
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
Nancy Pelosi
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
Barbara Steele
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My neighborhood now is all 21-year-old European supermodels. I go to the international newsstand on the corner, and they're all looking for their pictures in 'Italian Vogue.'
John Benjamin Hickey
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If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
Martin Scorsese
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And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.
Edie Falco
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The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
Mario Cuomo
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My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.
Christian Serratos
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Simplicity in preparation is the Italian way. Make easy dishes, and then you can elaborate the final preparation by decorating with vegetables or herbs or adding a dash of olive oil.
Lidia Bastianich
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So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?
Laini Taylor
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
Tamara Tunie
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
Lady Gaga
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I never thought that tailoring was something that normal people did; I just thought that it was something that guys who had suits made of Italian silk depended on, and I wish someone had told me what a difference tailoring makes!
Anna Kendrick
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I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
James Franco
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
Karl Lagerfeld
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People like me who have passion are derided: 'Ha ha ha! She's hysterical!' 'She's very passionate!' Listen how the Americans speak about me: 'A very passionate Italian.'
Oriana Fallaci
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I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.
Daniel Humm