#italians

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#father #friends #i #italians #know

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities. ↗

— Mario Monti

#am #certain #germans #i #i am

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#difficulty #italians #just #up #who

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#closer #come #effort #european #european union

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

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

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cooks #could #each #eating #edible

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

— Oriana Fallaci

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

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#came #defence #fight #i #italian