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Quotes by Italian Authors

"In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected."
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Bruno Rossi
"In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected."
"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs."
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Federico Fellini
"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs."
"I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems."
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Dario Argento
"I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems."
"If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth."
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
"If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth."
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
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Francis of Assisi
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
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"Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider."
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Valentino Rossi
"Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider."
"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
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Donatella Versace
"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."
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Dino De Laurentiis
"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."
"Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand."
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Aly Khan
"Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand."
"To be able to say how much love, is love but little."
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Petrarch
"To be able to say how much love, is love but little."
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"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."
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Umberto Guidoni
"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
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Michelangelo Antonioni
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
"You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time."
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Riccardo Muti
"You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time."
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"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
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Maria Montessori
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
"Small projects need much more help than great."
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Dante Alighieri
"Small projects need much more help than great."
"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."
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Christopher Columbus
"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."
"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."
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Cesare Pavese
"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."
"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."
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Umberto Eco
"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."
"You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs."
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Dante Alighieri
"You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs."
"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."
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Umberto Guidoni
"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."
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"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
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Eugenio Montale
"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
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Antonio Tabucchi
"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons."
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Carlo Goldoni
"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons."
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"Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs."
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Francesca da Rimini
"Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs."
"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women."
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Elsa Schiaparelli
"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women."
"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."
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Claudia Cardinale
"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."
"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."
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Giovanni Agnelli
"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."
"Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations."
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Mario Monti
"Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations."
"For it is in giving that we receive."
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Francis of Assisi
"For it is in giving that we receive."
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"On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it."
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Greta Scacchi
"On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it."
"Because I practice often with my children at home."
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Andrea Bocelli
"Because I practice often with my children at home."
"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life."
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Federico Fellini
"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life."
"I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art."
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Tina Modotti
"I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art."
"I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music."
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Giorgio Moroder
"I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music."
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"When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal."
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Saint Ambrose
"When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal."
"Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished."
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Dario Fo
"Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished."
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
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Italo Calvino
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
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"Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands."
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Giorgio Vasari
"Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands."
"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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Leonardo da Vinci
"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."
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Eugenio Montale
"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."
"Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles."
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
"Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles."
"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
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Galileo Galilei
"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
"To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art."
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Eleonora Duse
"To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art."
"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."
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Ignazio Silone
"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."
"When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple."
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Cecilia Bartoli
"When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple."
"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."
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Thomas Aquinas
"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."
"No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service."
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Christopher Columbus
"No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service."
"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."
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Claudia Cardinale
"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."
"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
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Greta Scacchi
"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
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"At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being."
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
"At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being."
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