Brazil Quotes

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marlene Dietrich

Themselves, Flowers, Throw

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo Coelho

Death, Parents, Career

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, America, Makes

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.
Rio Ferdinand

Win, Thought, Team

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.
Henry Louis Gates

Nation, Second, Blackest

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.
Henry Louis Gates

Beautiful, Wanted, Culture

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Husband, Living, American

Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Lie, Problems, Desire

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
James Taylor

Places, Musical, Catch

Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
Rainn Wilson

Thought, Show, Loved

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
Jeremy Rifkin

Create, Example, Effect

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.
Angela Merkel

Time, Through, Thought

I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.
Dionne Warwick

Love, Music, Past

Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.
Dionne Warwick

Love, Family, God

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.
Garrett Hedlund

Fast, London, Edit

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
Adriana Lima

Women, Poor, Around

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.
John Motson

Good, Themselves, Playing

There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil is uncannily similar to that found in Pakistan, and I hope to one day make a film that follows similar themes.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Hope, Between, Film

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

Together, Earth, Almost

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
Nelly Furtado

Interest, Heritage, Portugal

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.
Herb Alpert

Music, Period, Records

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

Love, Time, Since

No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.
Candice Swanepoel

Fun, Care, Fashion

During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.
Michael Franti

Change, Education, Energy

Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.
Alan Hansen

Everybody, Likes, Brazilians

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
Alan Hansen

Win, Defense, Solid

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
Walter Salles

American, Create, Films

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
Walter Salles

Past, Done, Generation

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
Walter Salles

Speaking, Continent, Portuguese

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
Walter Salles

Television, Worked, European

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