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Italians first!

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

Italians allow anything in their cooking.

All Italians speak Spanish without studying.

We Italians are always criticising ourselves.

The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.

I will be the defense attorney for all Italians.

You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.

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

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

We Italians respect food and ingredients more than anyone else.

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.

All Italians got a refrigerator in the garage. That's what we do.

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

I've got nothing to teach to the Italians - I love playing in this league.

Italians are very conscious of what they eat, how they eat, and its digestion.

I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

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

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.

My father bought a house in Panther Hollow. We were the first Italians in the neighborhood.

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

Italians have famously low levels of trust in their government, and a tradition of medical hoaxes.

I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.

The Italians - they cannot talk without shaking the hands. And I am like that, I'm from Brazil as well.

I love Italian fashion - the sense of style that Italians have as part of their DNA. Nobody is like them.

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

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

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.

I get on well with Italians. Which makes things easier when I meet, for example, my future mechanics at Ferrari.

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

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

I will never find people like the Italians... there is this spontaneity, this living life with a smile, to its fullest.

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

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

Tactically, Italians are very strong. They are a lot into tactics: how to defend, when you lose the ball, where will you be?

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common.

The VAR was introduced to reduce controversies, and instead, they have increased - possibly because we Italians like to stoke them.

The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

When the national team plays, everyone feels a part of it. Everyone comes together. And when Italians come together, we tend to do well.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.

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