Brazil Quotes

• I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.

  Pele

  Inspirational, People, Done

  "And God created Pele" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2003.

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• The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Freedom, Blood

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• Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile a total of thirty-one times, a fact not many of us are informed about in school. The Marines intermittently occupied Nicaragua form 1909 to 1933, Mexico from 1914 to 1919, and Panama from 1903 to 1914. To 'restore order' the Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, killing over two thousand Haitians who resisted 'pacification.'

  Michael Parenti

  School, Marine, Order

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• Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Wall, Mean

  "Paulo Coelho: 'Today we are proud of being Brazilians'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2010.

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• The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Russia, Earth, Forests

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

  John Motson

  Running, Rounds

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• It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

  Paulo Freire

  Reality, Land, People

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• [On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Country, One Day, Democracy

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• I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.

  Gilberto Gil

  Planets

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• Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

  Bob Brown

  Country, Coffee, Drunk

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• Look at me and tell me if I dont have Brazil in every curve of my body.

  Carmen Miranda

  Curves, Looks, Body

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• I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

  Ana Beatriz Barros

  Kids, Tomatoes, Engagement

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Travel, Women, Latin

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• I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

  Oliver Kahn

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Lying, People, Desire

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• I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Sao Paulo, World

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• Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

  Ronald Biggs

  Beer, Justice, Barbados

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• Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Believe, Winning

  "This time it's for Rio". Interview with Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

  Angela Merkel

  Summer, Team, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

  Joe Tex

  Florida, Years, Parent

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• I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip.

  Kristanna Loken

  Journey, Thinking, America

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• There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Years, Judging

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• If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

  Adriana Lima

  Baby, Pregnancy, Looks

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• My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

  Arto Lindsay

  Parent, Grew Up, States

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• You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Nuts, Example, Genes

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