Being Italian Quotes (page 2)

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• hurt
• saying
• french

To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. Elizabeth Gilbert

• thinking
• management
• different

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently. Jose Mourinho

• dad
• girl
• night

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night. Lady Gaga

• comeback
• wine
• great

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines. Rocco DiSpirito

• french
• friend
• friends

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language. Francois Hollande

• accounting
• completing
• scholarly

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

• french
• star
• ambition

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. Katharine Hepburn

• culture
• mexican
• mexicans

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. Robert Towne

• light
• disregarded
• italian

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded. Howard K. Smith

• time
• cover
• like

I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue. Adriana Lima

• life
• eating
• wine

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. Sophia Bush

• look
• friend
• summer

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes. Alexei Sayle

• spanish
• bride
• favorite

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films. Johnny Ramone