Brazil Quotes - Page 6

• A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.

  Haile Gerima

  Ideas, America, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

  Janio Quadros

  Reform, Revolutionary, Castro

  "One Man's Cup of Coffee". Time Magazine profile, content.time.com. June 30, 1961.

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• I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!

  Estelle

  Notebook, Song, Crazy

  "How Estelle headed to the US and scored her first No. 1". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2008.

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• The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a feat that only the bravest and most talented of us can manage. In Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval proves, yet again, that she is exactly the right writer for the job. A wild American picaresque, Brazil snaps along briskly, yet feels full-fleshed, and brims with a sly wit and grace.

  Lauren Groff

  Jobs, Grace, Balance

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• Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.

  Andrea McLean

  Eye, Nuts, Mouths

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• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  Gareth Bale

  Football, Dream, Kids

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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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• Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust.  Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black.  The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful.  The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.'  The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.

  Terry Gilliam

  Beautiful, Song, Beach

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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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• Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

  Francisco Costa

  Two, Week, Spend Time

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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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• Well, everybody has a bodyguard in Brazil.

  Bob Varsha

  Wells, Bodyguard

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• What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Ignorance, Passion

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Brazil will change when its cities change.

  Jaime Lerner

  Cities

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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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• The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  California, Romance, Gold

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• In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Army, Priorities

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• My bandmate once pissed his pants when we were playing in Brazil - but we weren't embarrassed, we were proud.

  David Macklovitch

  Proud, Pants, Embarrassed

  "Dillon Francis Interviews Friends Including Kygo, Bro Safari, on 'This Mixtape Is Fire'". edmchicago.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.

  Jacques Chirac

  Business, Mistake, Butterfly

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• Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.

  Gabriel Ba

  Book, Careers, Germany

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.

  Gabriel Ba

  Different, Followers, Kind

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.

  Gabriel Ba

  Years, Comic, Newspapers

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• There are a lot of movies that take place internationally, like Kung Fu Panda portraying a little bit of China, and Ratatouille portraying a little about Paris, but it's hard to find a movie that portrays Rio or Brazil.

  Carlos Saldanha

  Paris, Kung Fu Panda, Pandas

  Source: collider.com

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• So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'"

  Len Wiseman

  Stars, War, Drawing

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil.

  Ronaldo

  Congratulations, Ambition, Want

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