#italians

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance. ↗

— Alain Prost

#find #geniuses #italians #some #you

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians. ↗

— Elton John

#food #history #i #i love #incredible

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#come #family #farming #gambling #generally

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#another #film #films #gangsters #genre

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#beat #care #go #i #image

Today someone asked me if that old stereotype about hot-headed Italians is true. I answered this way: About 2,000 years ago, there was a guy running around hollering about peace & love ... and we nailed his ass to a cross! (Hope that answers your fuckin' question!) ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#italians #jesus-christ #religion #stereotypes #love

Italians have no sense of the dramatic. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#italians #sense

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#anti-semitism #disgusted #europeans #i #i am

The Indians are the Italians of Asia", Didier pronounced with a sage and mischievous grin. "It can be said, certainly, with equal justice, that the Italians are the Indians of Europe, but you do understand me, I think. There is so much Italian in the Indians, and so much Indians in the Italians. They are both people of the Madonna - they demand a goddess, even if the religion does not provide one. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is music inside the body, and music is food inside the heart. The Language of India and the language of Italy, they make every man a poet, and make something beautiful from every banalite. They are nations where love - amore, pyaar - makes a cavalier of a Borsalino on a street corner, and makes a princess of a peasant girl, if only for the second that her eyes meet yours. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#italians #love #pyaar #beauty

First of all, let's get one thing straight. Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It's alluring, but complicated. It's the kind of place that can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred meters, or in the course of ten minutes. Italy is the only workshop in the world that can turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis. ↗

— Beppe Severgnini

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