Brazil Quotes - Page 4

• Brazil will change when its cities change.

  Jaime Lerner

  Cities

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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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• (Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.

  Stefan Zweig

  Christian, Jobs, Freedom

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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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• 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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• The BRIC countries - Brazil, India, China, Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia even, and Russia - are now new actors. Over the last eight years, China multiplied by seven its economic presence and penetration in the Middle East. And if this happens on economic terms and there is a shift towards the East, the relationship between these countries and Israel is completely different from the United States. And it means that the challenges are going to be different, because China is not supporting Israel the way the U.S. are supporting Israel.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Mean, Years

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• In my heart, I've never left Brazil.

  Brent Spiner

  Heart, My Heart, Left

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• Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Thinking

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• I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

  Eike Batista

  Today, Investment, I Can

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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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• The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Ecosystems, Together, Three

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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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• I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

  Lee Pace

  Surfing, Kind, Clumsy

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

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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 am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Crazy, Heart, Investing

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

  Ronaldinho

  Bollywood, Facts, Courses

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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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• 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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• Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

  Ronaldinho

  Country, Mean, Winning

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• The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

  Win Butler

  Black, Film, My Favorite

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• I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

  Francisco Costa

  Years, Missing, My Family

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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