Brazil Quotes - Page 2

• Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

  Nelly Furtado

  Heritage, Portugal, Portuguese

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• In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

  Alan Hansen

  Winning, Defense, World

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• Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

  Henry Louis Gates

  World, Nations

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• Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Miracle, India, Trouble

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• You can't charge for anything in Brazil.

  David Neeleman

  Source: skift.com

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• What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

  Antonio Carlos Jobim

  Swings, United States, Cuba

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• Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Europe, Land, Bigger

  Letter to Henry Miller, 1948.

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• They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.

  Morena Baccarin

  Country, Travel, Joy

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

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• Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

  Pele

  Football, Sleep, Winner

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• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick

  Eye, Balls, Princess Diaries

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• What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful.

  Uri Geller

  Children, Grateful, Thinking

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• Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Latin, Doubt

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• Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situation, but it's not. There are a lot of problems. Historically, we have been in struggle, in real struggle to protect and defend the natural leaning towards absorbing the African and the Indian heritage that our society has.

  Gilberto Gil

  Real, Struggle, America

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• Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

  Clarice Lispector

  Roots

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• Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.

  Gilberto Gil

  Fashion

  "Brazil's Gilberto Gil, Minister of Cool". edition.cnn.com. September 01, 2003.

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• We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.

  George F. Kennan

  Country, Real, Countries Of The World

  "Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 143, 1993.

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• Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration of the Sphinx; and the devotee of nuts by pointing out that hazelnuts and walnuts are as deleterious as other foods and only Brazil nuts should be tolerated. But when I was younger I had not yet acquired this technique, with the result that my contacts with cranks were sometimes alarming.

  Bertrand Russell

  Nuts, Pyramids, People

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• No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Fashion, Beach, Fun

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• How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Passing On, Grandparent

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• Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

  Morena Baccarin

  Country, Latin, America

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

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• Shooting on the street in Brazil - compared to people trying to sneak a picture of something, if you're shooting in the States or Canada - people would literally just try to grab you.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Trying, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• After watching mulattas shake it, I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part, the ass.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Body, Ass, My Favorite

  "Candidate's past bubbles up again / Racy 1983 video starring Schwarzenegger may be rereleased" by John Wildermuth, Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2003.

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• Do you know what would keep me in Brazil, no matter what happened? Sex!

  Ronald Biggs

  Sex, Matter, Happened

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• By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States. We want to work with you. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Oil, Support

  "Brazil bars Chevron executives from leaving over spill" by Marilia Brocchetto and Maria P. White, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2012.

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• I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Country, Believe, Majority

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