Top 1200 Being Italian Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it's being famous for being brilliant at something.

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

I got a lot of crap for being named SZA but not being affiliated with Wu-Tang, and being a girl.

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem... 'O Canada,' how wonderful is that for hockey... but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all four times - they won the championship.

I am one who is very meridione - Southern Italian. I am proud of this. I design everything with my team, which is fantastic and small. I design by look. For example, people always comment to me, "When you do men's shirts, you always keep them closed on the catwalk." That's my thing.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

So being a senior player, being a goalkeeper, being a team member, I think saving the ball is my first main priority.

Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany is desperate. It must maintain its standard of living. It can only do that with exports and Deutsche Bank is very exposed to Italian debt. But so is the rest of Europe.

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.

Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstruction and they don't deeply interest me. But that's the case in most cultures. We have our own Language Poetry, which doesn't interest me either.

During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope--that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.'

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

The laws imposed by Brussels damage Italian artisans, traders, pensioners, but hey, Europe is asking, so we have to obey. Come on, if Europe asks me to throw myself in a well, I'm not going to do that just because Europe is asking me to, am I?

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

We talked to Sergei Bodrov who did "Mongel" who I thought was incredible. There was a lot of people who've done a lot of things that I really appreciate and then you go back to the Italian spaghetti westerns that our spaghetti westerns were based off of so I've seen everything.

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

I got songs about being broke, being on welfare, being poor, Section 8.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.

Sex is something I live very well, but it is something I revealed very slowly in my fashion. What I do is emotional. For me, there is a base, which is my Italian roots. It's a strong passion for fashion, a passion for sensuality and dressing for one's self.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

Being stupid and compassionate are not conflicts. Being mean and being funny and having something to say are not a conflict.

Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

My family is certainly very vocal. They're very Italian. A lot of our holidays end with people screaming at each other across the room. And everyone's very opinionated and intelligent. A lot of my aunts and uncles are wildly educated, and their opinions reflect that. We're all very liberal.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

If we approach other people understanding our own value, being confident in who we are, being centered and grounded, it's actually easier for us to connect with them because we can listen more deeply and we can express ourselves more authentically without fear of being judged or not being enough.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being a celebrity.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

I'm somebody who looks at things through the lens of being a wife and being a mother and being a United States Marine.

I love Europe. I don't speak a lick of French, but I speak a bit of Italian. I can get through Italy better than I get through the rest of Europe.