The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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Related You talk to anyone anywhere in the country, and they'll tell you about a pizzeria that they the pizz... ED LEVINE The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria. MARK FEUERSTEIN I remember where I'm from. It's like, 'Dude, you used to work at Pizza Hut.' I still... MAXWELL Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat thi... ELIZABETH GILBERT You can say Pizza Hut is terrible pizza, but they also sell more pizzas than anybody else. JIMMY KIMMEL Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come t... WILL ADVISE While most people order their pizza hot, cold pizza has its own following, particularly among teens ... KATHY HASTY I would say that I love pizza so much that sometimes I eat pizza while I'm eating pizza. Like, I... MIKE BIRBIGLIA I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bi... GARETH GATES We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fa... KATIE HOLMES The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that'... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ... IRA GLASS Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got ... GENE WEEN You can't go wrong with pizza, unless it's terrible pizza. ANDY KINDLER When I first [went there], you could hardly get any food. Now there is Pizza Hut, T.G.I. Friday's an... DENNY GEURINK Pizza Hut always goes big for the big game with a new product launch. TOM JAMES And they say She's in the class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been that way since eigh... ED SHEERAN You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find my... CHRIS LEDOUX I love pizza; you can't really go wrong with pizza. NICK JONAS Who are you calling?" (claire) Pizza hut" (shane) Loser" (claire) RACHEL CAINE For me, being Italian, I love pizza. Particularly from Naples. I am obsessed. CHIARA FERRAGNI When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial. HALEY JOEL OSMENT At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut. DONNA RICE Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should ... DHANI HARRISON I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a dif... MARVIN HAGLER I used to not even be able to order pizza on the phone because I was just so shy. I think that's... EVAN RACHEL WOOD It starts in the home environment. If the parents eat bad? Those kids are going to eat bad. If they ... DONALD DRIVER The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I a... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I've had Chicago pizza, Domino's pizza and pizza made at home. I never had New York pizza, but it is... PAT POPE The food and drink that goes along with football is one of the best things: hamburgers, hotdogs, chi... MARISA MILLER People use the word 'love' a lot of different ways. Take me, for instance. I am often heard saying t... MARY BETH BONACCI If at first you don't succeed, order some pizza. ALBERT EINSTEIN Eating pizza is like having a little heaven in your nose. Wait, that's not what you eat pizza with. ... WILL ADVISE I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My bro... JUNIOR SEAU What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four. FAYE KELLERMAN I want to buy pizza, but my players don't want pizza; maybe they don't love pizza. Because I... CLAUDIO RANIERI Good chefs started with a pizza PIZZA In a hotel named body, a Vagus nerve is waiter, who takes order from microbiomes in gut and relays t... DR HITESH C SHETH The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The worst things in life come free to us ED SHEERAN The whole key is the type of pizza you eat. A pizza with the right ingredients can be very healthy. ... DEANNA MILLER There's a view of Montana writing that seems stage-managed by the Chamber of Commerce - it's... THOMAS MCGUANE When I get home off a long week, I go to the gym, have a great workout, and then I go home and order... SETH ROLLINS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothin... JACQUES PEPIN I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece he... DICK VAN DYKE It has a real spicy tomato sauce. That makes the whole pizza. SARAH FRAZIER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER The difference between pizza and your opinion is that I actually asked for pizza. ANONYMOUS I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love ... VALERIE BERTINELLI Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon. B... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was ... JOHNNY DEPP They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths? GREG CURTIS If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pi... NICK OFFERMAN That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in r... KATE BUSH You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things - a really amazing cheeseburger,... CHANNING TATUM There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathe... PAOLO SORRENTINO I would come home from school every Wednesday, order pizza, and watch 'X-Files.' I was devot... BEN FOSTER I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the livin... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Most definitely, we love it. For a long time people have watched football and ate pizza ... It's the... COREY SMITH I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI On the night before a triathlon, I normally eat something simple like a pizza. You know where you st... JONATHAN BROWNLEE I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between ... CHANNING TATUM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or ... DYLAN LAUREN There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m. CHARLES PIERCE People think that Super Bowl Sunday is the big day of the year for pizza [and takeout] shops, but th... SEAN ADAMS In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate... FRANK OCEAN Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box. P. J. O'ROURKE We don't go to war to protect Pizza Hut or Burger King or some other things, some of the nonsens... MICHAEL T. FLYNN I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise... RALPH BAKSHI A Pizza Slice a day keeps Sadness Away. JET PAACAL It's too cold outside For angels to fly An angel will die Covered in white Close... ED SHEERAN I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Wr... GAYLE FORMAN A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since i... ZAC EFRON The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing... BARRY RITHOLTZ I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It... JEREMY LUKE Pizza Hut is an international brand that is part of India's local fabric and our customers? lives. W... SANDEEP KOHLI I'd say 95 percent of the people in the tournament stay overnight. They like to get a motel with a p... GEORGE WEBB Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY But mainly what you're so excited to win is the fact that you were crowned 'Pizza of the Year' out o... JODIE AUFDENCAMP Only food that can provide sugar, salt and fat to microbial communities of his gut is pizza so his m... DR HITESH C SHETH Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ... C. JOYBELL C. I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that ... CRESS WILLIAMS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE The pizza is really good. They get it from a local place. It comes in a sack. ANDY PFEIFER That has helped from a social perspective. Lots of kids eat pizza. DENISE BUNNING I used to work out on an island called Martha's Vineyard. I ran a pizza oven, I caddied, I worke... AUSTIN STOWELL I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wre... MARILYN MANSON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON
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