Portuguese Quotes - Page 2

• Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

  Patriotic, Can Not

  "Political ideology of the state Salazar" by Jorge Campinos, Portugalia Editora (p. 22), 1975.

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• Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.

  Hugo Chavez

  School, Thinking, Knowing

  "Aló Presidente" (English: "Hello Mr. President") with Hugo Chavez, October 2, 2005.

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• I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

  Sebastian Arcelus

  Mother, Italian, Speaking Spanish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Marine, Hands, Years

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• These were African-Arab-Asian values. The only section of Europe that had a high value system during the Dark Ages was the, were those on the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France.

  Malcolm X

  Dark, Europe, Southern

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.

  Malcolm X

  Southern, Culture, France

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Dominicus Corea had a posthumous son, Lewis Corea who became the Dissawe of Uva. Sir Paul Peiris wrote that `With the disappearance of Dominicus Corea, came a short lull in military operations of which the Portuguese officials availed themselves to give free rein to that rapacity which so frequently disgraced their careers in the East'. Dominicus Corea was succeeded by his brother Simon, as Dissawe of the Sat Korale, Kotte and Sitawaka.

  Dominicus Corea

  Brother, Military, Son

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• 'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it had never stopped impressing him.

  Pascal Mercier

  Morning, Children, Real

  "Night Train To Lisbon".

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• No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Men, Born, Understood

  Patrick O'Brian (2000). “Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.53, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

  Zoe Saldana

  Italian, Fluent

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• I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join Manchester United.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Player

  "United land other Ronaldo". www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2003.

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• You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Play, Perfect

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• My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mom, Unique, Thinking

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• I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Fall, Rivers, Massachusetts

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• As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wall, Walls Have Ears, Ears

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• It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Animal, Surround Sound

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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• The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.

  Desmond Tutu

  White, Black, Speak

  Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

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• It's fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it's fun when the writers will come to you and say 'Hey, listen, we're working on this story and we need to know if you speak any foreign languages.' And I said 'No, I don't. I speak a little Spanish, but I can learn a foreign language.' And they go 'Okay, do you think you can learn Portuguese?' And I go 'Yeah, whatever it takes. If it's funny, I'll do it.' So of course I start looking online and learning Portuguese, and as it turns out, I get the script and it's now Serbian.

  David Alan Basche

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spiritual, Home, Years

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• The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no difference.

  P. W. Botha

  Italian, Differences, Groups

  Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

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• My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Birthday, Mom, Growing Up

  "Interview With a True Original, Emeril Lagasse". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.

  Tom Standage

  Coffee, East, Spices

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• The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.

  Pedro Passos Coelho

  Communication, Technology, Research

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• I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is going out with a missing Portuguese criminal and your friends don't want to be your friend anymore, it makes you want to emigrate to a vicious Muslim regime, where at least all the women are treated like social outcasts. Anyway, I don't care. I am going to quietly read a book all weekend and listen to classical music.

  Helen Fielding

  Mother, Hate, Book

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• Luke rose to his feet. "I'm taking five minutes for some air. I'll be back. " He felt them watching him as he made his way to the front doorsall of them, even Amatis. Senhor Monteverde whispered something to his wife in Portuguese; Luke caught "lobo", the word for "wolf", in the stream of words. They probably think I'm going outside to run in circles and bark at the moon.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Moon, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Glass”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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