My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

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Thoreau in Italy

Lingo of birds was easier than lingo of peasants-
they were elusive, though, the birds, for excellent reasons.
He thought of Virgil, Virgil who wasn't there to chat with.

History he never forgave for letting Latin
lapse into Italian, a renegade jabbering
musical enough but not enough to call music

So he conversed with stones, imperial and papal.
Even the preposterous popes he could condone
a moment for the clean arrogance of their inscriptions.

He asked the Italians only to leave him in the past
alone, but this was what they emphatically never did.
Being the present, they never ceased to celebrate it.

Something was always brushing him on the street, satyr
or saint-impossible to say which the more foreign.
At home he was called touchy; here he knew he was.

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poem by Robert Francis
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The Italians are wise before the act, the Germans in the act, the French after the act.

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

quote by Pope John XXIII
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Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

quote by Ruud van Nistelrooy
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Italy is a divided country without a center.

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The italians are wise before the deed; the germans in the deed; the french after the deed.

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Streets Of Little Italy

(robbie seidman)
Producer for bonnie: desmond child
The narrow and the winding ways
The streets of old new york
The families, the street life, the spark
The rooftop where we watched
San gennaros festival
Masquerades in the dark...
On the streets down in little italy
Where the past goes on and on forever
And I feel it ever present
In every step I take alone
On the streets down in little italy
The oceans and the years
That separate our lives
From these streets we once called our home
Those distances of space and time
How strong they are
And how weak they are...
On the streets down in little italy

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song performed by Bonnie Tyler
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Nearly all Italian officers speak French.

quote by Hugh Dalton
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I have no Italian in me. I'm Cuban, Greek, Romanian, and Sephardic Jew, so I couldn't get further from Italian. But I guess I've been adopted into that family, too.

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I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.

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The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

quote by Thomas Paine
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Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

quote by Gianni Agnelli
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The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

quote by Romano Prodi
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It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever.

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The Italian Renaissance is that cultural and artistic civilization, which had Florence as one of its main centers. "God, make me want more than I can get" Michelangelo Buonarroti.

quote by Camelia Oprița (6 March 2017)
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

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Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

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Tutti Frutti

(words & music by dorothy labostrie - richard penniman)
Wop-bop-a-loom-a-boom-bam-boom tutti frutti
Au rutti tutti frutti au rutti tutti frutti
Au rutti tutti frutti au rutti tutti frutti
Au rutti wop-bop-a-loom-bop-a-boom-bam-boom
Got a gal named sue
She knows just what to do
She rocks to the east
She rocks to the west
Shes the gal I love best
I got a gal named daisy
She almost drives me crazy
She knows how to love me
Yes indeed, boy you dont know
What she does to me

song performed by Elvis Presley
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