#italia

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#believe #chicago #conditions #could #europe

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#i #italian #make #nature #out

It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#culture #emotional #february #feel #fever

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

#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#italian #little #spanish #speak

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#italian #japanese #kitchen

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#felt #funny #had #hair #i

As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#anything #basic #been #before #broke

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

#anywhere #cable #disregarded #italian #lightly

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality. ↗

— Mario Monti

#government #help #hope #i #i hope that