Portuguese Quotes

• I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

  Rashida Jones

  Community, Black, Lucky

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• The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sea, Greek, Ends

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• We're very aggressive speakers. I remember when I was with one of my roommates in New York - and she's Portuguese, too - and we were in an Apple store talking about a computer in Portuguese. Some guy comes up to us and goes, "Hey, hey! Peace, peace! Stop arguing." It's not arguing. This is really just how we talk.

  Daniela Ruah

  Guy, Arguing, Remember

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Men, Battle

  "A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal 1996-98". Book by Alec Guinness, 1999.

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• I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down. It's funny that I chose to write them in Spanish rather than English or Portuguese.

  Sonia Braga

  Memories, Writing, Events

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead.

  Che Guevara

  Race, America, Black

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• My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.

  Stana Katic

  Thinking, House, Parent

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• God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christmas

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.189, Everyman's Library

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• When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'

  Faye Dunaway

  Thinking, Glasses, Remember

  "Looking for Gatsby". Book by Faye Dunaway, 1995.

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• When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.

  Gregory Rabassa

  Dark, Owl, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.

  Jean Ferris

  Congratulations, Mean, Done

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• Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Novelty

  Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

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• I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want. The thing is, I do identify with being black, and if people don't identify me that way that's their issue. I’m happy to challenge people's understanding of what it looks like to be biracial, because guess what? In the next 50 years, people will start looking more and more like me.

  Rashida Jones

  Years, Issues, People

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• I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Language

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 353, 2006.

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• I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is.

  Mark Teixeira

  Baseball, Italian, Player

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• The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.

  Che Guevara

  Race, Example, Territory

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• Romania are more Portuguese than German.

  Barry Venison

  Romania

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• She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Men, Class

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.

  Clarence Nash

  Chinese, Language, Quacks

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• I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

  Izabel Goulart

  Italian, Speak English, One Day

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• My homeland is the portuguese language.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Language, Homeland

  "A Factless Autobiography" by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, Lisbon, (p. 230), 2006.

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• Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

  Jon Weisman

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.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, Brazil, Portugal

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• From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

  Francesca Annis

  England, Speak, Seven

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