Brazil famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
-- Alan Hansen -
My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.
-- Arto Lindsay -
It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match
-- Barry Davies -
There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.
-- Bobby Robson -
Look at me and tell me if I dont have Brazil in every curve of my body.
-- Carmen Miranda -
Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.
-- Clarice Lispector -
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 -
I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen.
-- Eduardo Saverin -
I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.
-- Eike Batista -
There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.
-- Emerson Fittipaldi -
I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.
-- Emerson Fittipaldi -
It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band.
-- Fernanda Takai -
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 -
I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.
-- Francisco Costa -
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 -
Brazil has its own fashion identity. Many very talented Brazilian designers show every season at Sao Paulo and Rio fashion weeks.
-- Gisele Bundchen -
One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.
-- J. Robbins -
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 -
You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
-- Jeremy Rifkin -
I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.
-- John Elkann -
Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.
-- John Motson -
Pryce, a veteran of Brazil and Baron Munchausen and a longtime Gilliam friend, bristles at the word chaos when applied to the Brothers Grimm set.] Terry knows what he wants, ... He's very demanding, but in a positive and generous way. And if you're up to it, it's very exciting. If you're not, you fall by the wayside.
-- Jonathan Pryce -
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.
-- Lee Pace -
It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.
-- Lionel Messi -
Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -
When the coach told me I was playing, I said: 'We're going to Brazil.' It doesn't matter how. If I'd had to score with my hand, the ball would have been in the back of the net.
-- Mamadou Sakho -
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
-- Nelly Furtado -
With 'Timbiriche,' I toured Brazil and a lot of Latin America.
-- Paulina Rubio -
I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.
-- Pele -
Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!
-- Pele -
Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.
-- Roberto Unger -
The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.
-- Win Butler -
My bandmate once pissed his pants when we were playing in Brazil - but we weren't embarrassed, we were proud.
-- David Macklovitch -
Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.
-- Janio Quadros -
There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.
-- John Towner Williams -
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 -
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 -
Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.
-- Ron Greenwood -
Do you know what would keep me in Brazil, no matter what happened? Sex!
-- Ronald Biggs -
Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.
-- Ronald Biggs -
I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil.
-- Ronaldo -
In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.
-- Gabriel Ba -
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 -
I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.
-- Gilberto Gil