Brazil Quotes - Page 9

• Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Firsts, Obsessed, First Time

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• Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

  Pele

  Football, Crazy, Mean

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• Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.

  Pele

  Football, United States, Firsts

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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• No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou. He made history at Barca, he made history with Brazil and he's still making history.

  Neymar

  Winning, Play, Titles

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• While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

  Elliott Abrams

  Country, Argentina, Textbooks

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• China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.

  Michael Anti

  Country, Mean, Russia

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• He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy. 
  (on Ronaldinho)

  Pele

  Player, Giving, Joy

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• I think he'll reach 1000 goals, but he'll never overtake my total. 
  (on 40-year old Romario)

  Pele

  Thinking, Years, Goal

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• In my private life I do what I like. The night is my friend. If I don't go out, I don't score.

  Romario

  Night, Score, Private Life

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• Lula was really the face of Brazil's boom in the previous decade and is one of the most towering politicians in the country today, so for this investigation to find get to him is an enormous deal.

  Simon Romero

  Country, Today, Faces

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Well, Lula has an incredible amount of sway still. He's someone who came up from very humble origins, so his life trajectory is something that many people in Brazil still identify with. So within the governing Workers' Party, he has a lot of power. He has power to name ministers, some people say. And he's very close with the current president as well. She's his handpicked successor.

  Simon Romero

  Party, Humble, Names

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• We saw groups of people gathering in front of Lula's house in Sao Paulo this morning. You had people shouting at one another, and some fistfights even broke out. Some of his supporters are claiming that this is equivalent of a coup attempt, an attempt to remove Rousseff from power and prevent Lula from running again. And other people are saying that this is simply a display of rule of law in Brazil, that no one in Brazil can be above the law at this time.

  Simon Romero

  Running, Morning, Law

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Jobs, Hands, Ideas

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• If instead policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.The first country that implemented this participatory program of assessment, research and policy development was Brazil. I was one of the outsiders who provided support to the initiative.

  Ruth Simmons

  Country, Real, Team

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

  Ruth Simmons

  Latin, Winning, Men

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Brazil does have every right to develop its own peaceful nuclear programme.

  Vladimir Putin

  Peaceful, Doe, Nuclear

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• That's what I think my job in the world has been, is to sort of try to sit silently a bit and watch it all sort of move and see those small, quiet details, whether it be a small village outside of Colombo [country?] or the favelas of Brazil, where, again, resistance culture is something that you hear resonating in the streets of South Central Los Angeles as well.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in Brazil. They had beautiful buildings and theaters, and there was a bakery that was threatened to be demolished, but people insisted against it. They laid down in front of it and said, "You're going to have to go over my body to destroy it." It frustrates me when I see people on Facebook posing in front of old buildings while on vacation, because they could've posed in front of equally beautiful buildings at home in Rio.

  Sonia Braga

  Beautiful, Home, Past

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.

  Sonia Braga

  Ocean, Aquarius, Long

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the black. We're feeling really good about what's going on in Brazil.

  David Neeleman

  Thinking, Optimism, Feelings

  Source: skift.com

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• I think that the Brazilian football is one of the best in the world. It still is and still struggles for this. We have talented players that can take Brazil to the top.

  Neymar

  Football, Struggle, Player

  Source: www.unisportstore.com

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• We can't be playing around with these issues [Zika disease], because this can become very serious very quickly, as we have seen in Brazil and other countries. The funds are going to be used at the state level, but it is important for the federal government to cooperate in the federal government's role.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Government, Issues

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• The IMF insisted that both Russia and Brazil maintain their currency at over-valued levels. Who are you protecting when you try to maintain that exchange rate by having high interest rates? You're protecting domestic and foreign firms that have gambled on the exchange rate. And who is paying the price? The small businesses that did not gamble [and no longer can afford loans], the workers who are going to be put out of jobs.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Jobs, Russia, Trying

  Source: www.progressive.org

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