Brazil Quotes

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

  Ronald Biggs

  Beer, Justice, Barbados

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

  Kristanna Loken

  Journey, Thinking, America

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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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• 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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• 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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• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick

  Eye, Balls, Princess Diaries

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• In Brazil, even inside the same city, people from different parts dress differently. Sao Paulo, for example, is more connected to global trends and urban movements. Rio de Janeiro is more influenced by the beach, and has a sort of Cali vibe with the way people dress. Porto Alegre down in the south has a hard winter, so people have to dress to face the cold days.

  Ricardo Nunes

  Beach, Winter, Cities

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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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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