Brazil Quotes - Page 6

• Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

  Roberto Unger

  People, China, Fewer

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• For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting only selective derogatory untruthful rumors (some of which are still around), harsh criticism, and unwarranted sarcasm. I was very hurt by this. It was such great disappointment... When I came back from Brazil at that time, I made a promise to myself that I would never, ever again sing in Brazil. So far [as of 2002], I have kept this promise, having declined each and every invitation or proposals to perform in Brazil. Once was enough!

  Astrud Gilberto

  Music, Hurt, Disappointment

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• Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil

  Frank Sinatra

  Coffee, Awful, Way

  Song: Coffee Song, The, Album: Ring-a-Ding Ding!

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• The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect us all.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rain, Knowledge, Science

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• Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil - without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle.

  Frances Ford Seymour

  Science, Hunting, Community

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• We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.

  Hugh McCutcheon

  Volleyball, Russia, Play

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• If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Real, Fighting, Hunger And Poverty

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• Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way.

  Izabel Goulart

  Opportunity, People, Interesting

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• I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don’t see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Rivers, Pounds, Found

  "Anthony Bourdain’s Off-the-Menu Travel Tips". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. August 3, 2011.

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• It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.

  Russell Banks

  Weed, Kids, Boys

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• I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.

  Ronaldinho

  Father, Games, Play

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• I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.

  Pele

  Thinking, Spain, Germany

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• The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.

  Leslie Jamison

  Past, Years, Battle

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• This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

  Gary Lineker

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  " My granny could have coached Brazil, says Lineker" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2006.

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• It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match

  Barry Davies

  Football, Scotland, Commentators

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• Joe Biden went to Brazil in an effort to try and repair America's relationship with their government. Biden said, 'It's great to be here in the Amazon. I've always wanted to see where all the books come from.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Book, Government, America

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• In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.

  Anne Robinson

  Soccer, Country, Football

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• I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

  Eike Batista

  Country, Children, Thinking

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• One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

  J. Robbins

  People, Really Cool, Made

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Wings, Two

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• Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it's widely followed in Brazil.

  Ronaldinho

  Bollywood, Facts, Courses

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• When the coach told me I was playing, I said: 'We're going to Brazil.' It doesn't matter how. If I'd had to score with my hand, the ball would have been in the back of the net.

  Mamadou Sakho

  Hands, Balls, Matter

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• Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.

  Ginni Rometty

  Thinking, Cities, Car

  "IBM Names Rometty to Succeed Palmisano as First Female CEO" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Class, Society

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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