Samba Quotes

• There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• [ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.

  Gilberto Gil

  Law, Intellectual, World

  "We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin" by Julian Dibbell, www.wired.com. November 01, 2004.

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• Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

  Mick Jagger

  White, People, Suggestions

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• Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as slaves. They even took away our drums. And I don't want to talk about all those negative things going on. But its music is more present in our lives than ever. Blues, samba, calypso, reggae, jazz, salsa, Africa is everywhere.

  Randy Weston

  Past, Negative, World

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• Any Latin dance, whether it be salsa, cha cha, samba, etc., is very sexy for me to see a woman do. Using your hips is the key.

  Ryan Guzman

  Sexy, Latin, Keys

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

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• The charismatics confused the holy liturgy with a school of samba, but than I was converted when I got to know them better and saw the good they do.

  Pope Francis

  Confused, School, Saws

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

  Anton du Beke

  Latin, Nonsense, Rumba

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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