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Quotes About Culture

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.
~ Donna Leon
The Italian side of my family were gypsies, and we are little hard so-and-sos.
~ Chris Rea
I have this thing for anything Italian.
~ Alan Taylor
I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.
~ Sergio Marchionne
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
~ Chita Rivera
I'm really bad at pronunciation in Italian.
~ Fab Moretti
My parents could not be more Italian.
~ Edoardo Ponti
I speak African. I can even speak Italian.
~ Frank Bruno
Manbags are only acceptable if you are Italian, French, or gay.
~ Roger Stone
I grew up in a city, an Italian, knowing what the Mafia was.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
Italian work is excellent but it takes them six months to do what we do in a week.
~ William Hanna
An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.
~ Rudolph Valentino
I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.
~ Joe Russo
I grew up in an immigrant household with an Italian father who came to the U.S. when he was 15.
~ Sebastian Maniscalco
Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
~ Lady Gaga
My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.
~ Louis Gossett, Jr.
There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
~ Omar Sharif
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
~ Irving Babbitt
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
~ Victoria de los Angeles
I'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk.
~ Lea Michele
I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.
~ Bill Rancic
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
~ Paul Haggis
The secret is that I am Italian.
~ Dennis Christopher
I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri