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This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.
I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.
Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!
An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.
The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.
The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.
The problem many people have with Italian food is they over-complicate it. Italian food is extremely simple.
I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?
There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.
I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.
Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent.
He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.
For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.
We are Italian. We are all little tribes - not only in fashion, but also in music - in everything, basically.
I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.
Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.
If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.
So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.
The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.
I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.
I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.
Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.
I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.
How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.
I'm half Italian, and on my mom's side, they've aged amazingly, and all they've put on their faces is olive oil.
Things are very good at Inter. I love the club and also the Italian people and the Italian culture. It suits me.
All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.
The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.
If it's good-looking men you're after, the place to go is Italy. Every Italian I've ever come across is handsome.
What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!
English football is different: always on the attack. Although one thing is clear. The best football is the Italian.
I like eating Mughlai, Chinese and Italian cuisines, but Chinese cuisine is one which I can have any day, any time!
Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.
It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
I got recognized more by little sweet Italian fans in six days than I've ever been recognized in L.A. in six years.
It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.
But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime!
[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.
I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading.