Mario Monti Quotes

French arrogance is no longer in fashion in Italy.

If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.

In my normal way of doing things, there's a little bit of 'going native' that takes place, where you're in a world long enough, you can't really help but start to see things in a nuanced, more humanistic way. Just because you're with people and you start to, in general, slightly like the people you're with.

There's a fiercely competitive rivalry between myself and Virat Kohli - but also enormous mutual respect.

I don't care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of United States, of its baseball, its institutions, its rock and roll, its workers, and its technology because we need it. I want to be friends of the Arab people, of the Persian people, of the Asian people.

Meeting someone you admire, and then that person's like, 'I'm a fan of your work' - it's a really neat feeling.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

Any time you get to work with someone new who you admire, who's awesome, it's great; you're excited to be there.

If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.

When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.

Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you're a terrorist; if you're an American, you might be a militarist. Those kind of prisms that we see each other through are really stultifying, and they don't often show the complexity and the incredible warmth and encompassing of the world.

As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?'

When people do get to see each other and know each other more - you'll see it in New York, all these cultures are together - other cultures become far less scary and less foreign to you.

We in the so called 'Western civilisations' have so much to learn from other cultures, and they would stand to gain so much by learning from ours. We don't have all the answers - far from it... but nor do any other culture or religion.

There's nothing like a man watching a roomful of guys look his woman up and down to make him desire what he already has (and vice versa).

I just want Emma Thompson to be my best friend.

A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own.

I have tremendous respect for Bill Gurley. He's a friend of mine. I look up to him.

I like British guys.

I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much.

The reaction I get from my fans is they love me, and I love them back.

Frankly speaking, the pleasure and satisfaction you get after performing against India you don't get against any team, and if you ask the Indian players, they would have similar sentiments.

Zizou is a phenomenon. It is an honour to share the same midfield as him. But he thinks the same about me.

I had attraction to work with Ang Lee. I wanted to work with him.

In this artistic world, you might as well find a way to work with somebody that you have admiration for.