I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
I am not interested in the Italian national team. I prefer to have a new experience, outside of Italy.
I started at the top. My first job was the cover of ‘Italian Vogue,’ which is the equivalent essentially of winning an Academy Award. So, there was nowhere else to go from there.
I was a blond-haired kid with blue eyes, growing up in an Italian ghetto. I had a very high IQ. In elementary school, I skipped ahead twice. I was 10 years old when everyone else was 12.
I look Italian, but I act Irish.
I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.
Life is too short, and I’m Italian. I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.
They don’t call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything.
I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, ’cause I’ve got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one… now a British one. I think it’d be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
It’s only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
Some anthems are great for sports. You’ve got the Russian national anthem… ‘O Canada,’ how wonderful is that for hockey… but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all four times – they won the championship.
I enjoy the honesty of English football, because nobody gives up, and almost all the best players are here. Italian football is at the bottom because of all those scandals. Their league is not very interesting.
I’m very Italian, so I love cooking for friends. Whether it’s Valentine’s Day and my boyfriend and girlfriends’ boyfriends are away, or someone’s in town, or someone had a baby, I cook.
My dad lives in Sicily, so I’m half Italian and half Irish – it’s a fiery combination.
My father’s best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.
I’d like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!
I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum’s from Naples and my dad’s from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.
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.
I know from the stories of my grandparents and great-grandparents the real struggles and discrimination that Italian Americans faced when they first immigrated to America.
The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join the freest and most advanced nations in inaugurating a new era of peace, justice, and joint cooperation in the work of civilization.
When I’m in England, I know I’m a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that’s German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.
Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.
Mario Balotelli is undoubtedly the greatest talent of Italian football.
I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!
My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was ‘Caroselli’ and it was changed in the mid ’50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name ‘Caroselli.’
I speak fluent Spanish. I also speak Italian and I was once pretty decent at German.
I love this little family-owned Italian spot called Tep’s Villa Roma. It has good home-style food made with love and intention.
You see it with Brexit, you see it in Donald Trump’s election, you see it with the fact that neither of the main parties ended up in the final round of the French presidential election, you see it with the Italian referendum being defeated, you see it in a lot of ways – the political revolution.
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
I like English football, Spanish football, Italian football. I like all of them.
Growing up in an Italian family, we used our body to convey a message.
I did this the hard way. I have worked my entire life in this business, and I’ve done the work – from being on the selling floor to learning to speak Italian to work with manufacturers with John Bartlett. I’ve done it all. I’ve paid my dues.
Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I’d rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.
I have always played cards during training camps. I used to play Italian card games, though. I rarely played poker.
Italian ports are no longer at the disposal of traffickers.
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.
India is keen to leverage Italian technology and investment for growth and development.
The problem many people have with Italian food is they over-complicate it. Italian food is extremely simple.
My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.
I’m a little long-winded. My dad is a preacher, my mom is Italian, so I come by it naturally.
Nobody should imagine that they could go to England and change the way that football is played there. Just as nobody should imagine that they could come to Italy and change the culture or the DNA of Italian football. Or even the DNA of the club where they work.
I love to make soups. My father used to say, ‘There’s nothing like a nice bowl of soup.’ One of my favorites is… ready? Broccolini, white bean and hot Italian sausage soup. I’ve used escarole. Escarole in beans is unbelievable, or you can use bok choy, any kind. You can really fool around. That’s one of my good ones.
I come from a big Italian family, and I grew up around wrestling.
Whether you talk about the olive oil, whether you talk about Aceto Balsamico, whether you talk about Grana Padano, whether you talk about Mozzarella di Bufala. These are all traditional Italian products that are hard to beat, and they’re easy to transport and buy. You don’t have to do much around it. Just eat them.
Milan are the most glorious Italian club.
The death of an Italian tailor might not be calamitous in Catania or Cagliari, but the loss to Soho is immeasurable. We don’t have Italian tailors we can spare here.
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.
Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is ‘objectivist’ – values are in inherent in production.
The only problem was that I couldn’t communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don’t. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
I grew up in an immigrant household with an Italian father who came to the U.S. when he was 15.
I have Italian heritage, so I’m keen to go over for a few months with the girls and soak up the culture and the food. I’d like us all to learn Italian together as a family – it’s something I’ve been saying for years.
It is great to hear that Italian football now has many supporters in Asia.
People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it’s in part because I’m Italian so I’m emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I’ve seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.
It’s foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya.
Nobody is going to invest in the Italian banks unless they trust their balance sheets.
