#italian

For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#irishmen #italians #multiculturalism #native-americans #paternalism

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#few #humane #humanists #italian #really

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #each #films #great #italian

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

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#also #been #demand #doubt #english

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. ↗

— Dario Argento

#adored #always #apart #audiences #did

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#called #going #hundreds #italian #old

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families. ↗

— Domenico Dolce

#family #fight #important #italian #our

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#cheese #come #cook #day #early