Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.
Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the ’30s, East Germany in the ’50s, Czechoslovakia in the ’60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the ’70s, China in the ’80s and ’90s – all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
I want to play in Europe and learn another language. Spain and Italy are options.
No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.
Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, ‘Oh, I look like a woman.’ And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, ’cause I loved it.
When I left Ajax in 1999, I travelled to Liverpool and spoke to Houllier. I was shown around Anfield and also met with the chairman and a couple of the players. I thought about it, but when Juventus came to the table, I came to the conclusion that it would be a bigger challenge to play in Italy.
In Italy, managers don’t know how long they’re going to be in charge for and there’s always rumors about someone taking over.
A compact defense has always been the basis of Italy’s team.
People say that Andrea Pirlo is the main player and that everything goes through him, but that’s an illusion. Pirlo is a brilliant player but doesn’t dominate Italy’s play as much as people say.
I like to collect aprons from different places I go. I first started when I was in Italy because I thought that would be really appropriate. I got a hand-stitched Italian apron from this woman in Sicily who put my name on it, and it said, ‘Sicily, Italy.’ So now I get one from everywhere I go.
The one thing I learnt going to Italy was there’s no real change in how the game should be played, but how players look after themselves.
Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.
I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
I’m from Europe, England, and I actually lived in Italy.
Well, Italy is huge for me. I’ve been going back every summer, not just to see my family, but play with the Italian National Team. So, Italy plays a huge role in my life. It will always play a huge role in my life.
I don’t travel that much with my band Los Pacaminos as it’s quite a big crowd, but we got invited down to southern Italy once.
Toronto has been home to me and my family for almost 5 years. I arrived here from Italy in January 2015 and immediately felt something special.
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze – just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they’re all ‘Made in Italy.’ We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.
Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.
Italy should learn from the English system regarding security and civility.
Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries – like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain – to occupy countries outside of Europe.
I spent many years in Italy, I’ve lived just 5km away from the track and the Monza atmosphere is very special.
I really like Italy. I am good there and they treat me good.
If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.
We don’t do spaghetti and Bolognese sauce together in Italy. That is technically wrong because when you lift up the spaghetti the sauce will just run down. The way to do it is to use pasta like fettuccine or tagliatelle so the sauce sticks to it.
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?
The defense of our values and our identity requires regulation of the Islamic presence and Islamic organizations in Italy.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we’re in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.
After working with my father for two years, we started Candie’s, a line of imported shoes from Italy. Then in 1982 I set out to start my own business.
Living in Italy meant growing up without MTV.
I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.
There is no racism in Italy.
I love Italy. This is the country that made me famous, and I would love to stay in Serie A.
I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.
This stadium is the history of football, the most important arena in Italy. Stepping into San Siro always has an effect on you.
My grandfather created a big family in Italy. He protected the family; he helped them in hospitals and stuff like that.
I love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew up in Italy and had a humanistic education in philosophy and literature – things I love and appreciate. People are richer and more complex than just their day-to-day professional pursuits might suggest.
I was in Italy on vacation, and I saw my reflection in a mirror. I saw how unique my skin was and why people stop me on the street to ask about it. I started falling in love with it.
I am not interested in the Italian national team. I prefer to have a new experience, outside of Italy.
We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so we got a new promoter.
I think this is something special about Italy; waking up, taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football.
I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there.
I am dreaming that Italy can return to having lots of important talent. We need to grow our young players.
In Italy, it is all about tactics and playing for a result, whereas in Spain, the focus is on technique and pace. In England, the game is based on aggression and non-stop action.
I have built already seven very large railway stations: one in Italy; two in Belgium; and in France, and in Switzerland, in Portugal, and also in the United States. And what happens is that stations are not things that come from one day to another, it takes many years.
Well, in 1947… in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
I was happy to be in the Argentina league. Then I started to play slowly, and I went to Italy and I started in the second division.
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really – perhaps because I’m good at languages – of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy’s cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn’t care.
I never tried to convince my wife to move to Italy. She wouldn’t have liked that.
I started playing pro in Argentina. Then I went to second division in Italy. Then after a lot of work, I made it to first division. And at 25, I got here in the NBA.
The defenders in Italy are stronger, and that makes me better. Serie A is played in a different way to other leagues.
Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
I’ve backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.
I accept that I didn’t play very well in Italy for the two years. It was lower than my Ajax standard. I don’t know why.
If I stay in Roma, I can still improve. If I go back to Arsenal, I will treasure my experience in Italy.
In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they’d be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that point, it would obviously be indecipherable for us, but for the people of that time, it was just normal talking.
