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Life is too short. If we're in Italy, have pizza and pasta. But not every day.
Harley Pasternak
Life
Day
Life Is Too Short
Every Day
Every
Too
Italy
Pasta
Short
Pizza
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
Harry Mathews
Good
Language
Become
Fluency
Else
France
Dream
Able
Someone
Both
Through
Had
Perhaps
Also
Mistaken
Because
Italy
Being
Fantasy
Really
Languages
When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.
Howard Schultz
Work
Home
Vision
Coffee
First
Before
Own
Other
Our
Trip
Had
Re-Created
Also
Industry
Go
Italian
Discovered
Exist
Existed
Italy
Than
America
Did
Place
Created
Bars
Starbucks
Specialty
Image
Early
Third
The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.
Howard Stringer
France
Melting
Melting Pot
Pot
Part
True
Boundaries
Longer
Most
Industries
Because
Makes
Cultural
Italy
Domestic
Than
America
American
Movie
Movies
American Movie
Really
Across
Used
Less
Appeal
International
Film
I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.
Hugh Jackman
White
Hooked
Visited
Small
Days
Like
Got
Italy
Australia
Flat
Prefer
Less
Popular
Milk
I'm Latin, and my family is originally from Italy, so we're a loud group. There's always a lot of food, a lot of talking, a lot of fighting.
Isabeli Fontana
Food
Family
Fighting
Group
Latin
Talking
Always
Italy
Lot
Loud
Originally
I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.
Isabella Rossellini
Food
Great
Agriculture
Country
Shoes
Our
About
Only
Never
Knew
Like
Came
Italy
Up
Eggs
Where
Grew
Urban
Produce
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.
Italo Calvino
Energy
Books
Rules
Memoirs
Rate
More
Write
Open
Had
Without
Genuine
How
How Much
Testimonial
Been
Provide
Italy
Trying
Any
Preconceived
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Might
Modest
Notes
Plan
Us
Much
Useful
Less
Novel
Wasted
Things
Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.
James McBride
War
Good
Me
Old
Else
Everyone
One Of The Things
Guys
Over
Learnt
How
Italy
Role
Get
American
Ignored
Things
Started
Omaha
Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
James Taylor
Me
You
Brazil
Musical
Extremely
Catch
Most
Italy
Cultures
Ireland
Pitch
Anything
Places
Basically
I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
Jay Parini
Wife
Big
Year
Above
Had
Study
Heading
House
Him
Gore
Were
Italian
Discovered
Italy
Off
Big House
Little
Note
Sent
Us
Village
Lived
Found
Right
Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.
Jean-Luc Godard
Journey
Seen
Once
Could
Never
Had
Knew
Make
Were
Italy
Movies
Them
Even
I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.
Jen Lancaster
Speak
Enough
Definitely
Somewhat
Learned
Around
Always
Italian
Italy
Get
Swear
Grandfather
Grandmother
Used
Historically, the pull towards the center in European politics has been incredibly powerful. From Italy to Germany, it has been almost impossible for non-centrist forces to obtain real influence.
Jens Nordvig
Politics
Impossible
Incredibly
Has-Been
Almost
Powerful
Towards
Obtain
Forces
Real
Been
Italy
Historically
Germany
Influence
Center
European
Pull
Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
Jerry Saltz
Yourself
Living
Lasted
Other
Distinguish
Raphael
High
Only
Put
Town
Renaissance
Italian
Years
Italy
Up-And-Coming
Wonder
Michelangelo
Trying
Any
Artist
Artists
Leonardo
Your
Now
Imagine
Position
If I'm in Italy, I'll have an espresso, but I try not to get my energy from things like that.
Jessica Chastain
Try
Energy
Like
Italy
Get
Things
I find it really liberating to be in a place where I am a foreigner in every way. I've lived with this all my life - this divide, this bifurcation. And in Italy, I don't feel it. There's none of that tension, only the expectation I place on myself to speak the language well. I find it relaxing. Something drops away, and I observe.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Life
Myself
Speak
Language
My Life
Expectation
Every
Way
Liberating
Relaxing
All My Life
Find
Something
Only
Divide
Observe
Tension
Drops
Feel
Well
None
Am
Foreigner
Italy
Where
Place
Really
Lived
Away
My mom's father came from a family of 11 children who came over from the island of Ischia, Italy, and settled in Providence, RI. Her mother was part of the large community of French-speaking Canadians who settled in Woonsocket, RI.
Joanna Going
Mom
Family
Mother
Father
Community
Settled
Part
Over
Island
Came
Providence
Italy
Canadians
Children
Who
Large
Her
There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent of undergraduates are female, and France and Italy are strong, too. It is not about ability but more about what the culture says is appropriate.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Culture
Women
Physics
Strong
Example
Too
Appropriate
France
Says
Ability
Some
Per
About
More
Countries
For Example
Female
Issue
Malaysia
Italy
Departments
Where
Cent
I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well!
Jochen Zeitz
Business
Waiting
School
Doctors
Medicine
Back
Would
Would-Be
Some
Join
Come
Know
Well
Learn
Accepted
Italy
Germany
Wanted
Decided
While
Then
Useful
Business School
Figured
Medical
Actually
Medical School
When I had arrived in Italy, I had my CD Walkman and about 100 CDs. The song that spoke to me was Kate Bush's 'The Man With the Child in His Eyes,' from 1978.
Joely Fisher
Me
Man
Eyes
Song
About
Had
Spoke
Arrived
His
Italy
Child
Bush
Kate
We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.
John Fusco
Down
Back
Our
Hundred
Someone
Wire
Had
Over
Looked
Well
Globe
Around
Overlooked
Came
Tapes
Italy
Realized
I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.
John Ridley
Book
Book Tour
Once
London
About
Tour
Never
Because
Been
Italy
Where
Much
European
Traveler
We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
John T. Flynn
Today
Approaching
Made
Long
Power
Before
Assumed
Way
Possible
Kind
Mussolini
Slowly
Seem
He
Long Way
Conditions
Italy
Off
Preached
Behold
Which
Far
Fascism
Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.
Joichi Ito
People
Internet
Machine
Penetration
See
Most
Italy
Quite
Controls
Low
Media
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
Jonathan Coe
Relationships
Books
France
Markets
UK
Those
Something
Outside
Countries
Know
Also
Learned
Italy
Personal
Closest
Where
Biggest
Personal Relationships
Whether
Two
Coincidence
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