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Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice. -- Ronald Biggs
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. -- Marlene Dietrich
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
The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying. -- Pele
I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win. -- Oliver Kahn
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land. -- Lawrence Durrell
I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip. -- Kristanna Loken
In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense. -- Alan Hansen
Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves. -- John Motson
Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales. -- Ron Greenwood
My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil. -- Arto Lindsay
I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato. -- Ana Beatriz Barros
You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well. -- Nelly Furtado
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes. -- Antonio Carlos Jobim
I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done. -- Pele
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
Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days). -- Joe Tex
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
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too. -- Malcolm X
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
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
Look at me and tell me if I dont have Brazil in every curve of my body. -- Carmen Miranda
I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world. -- Emerson Fittipaldi
Well, everybody has a bodyguard in Brazil. -- Bob Varsha
Brazil will change when its cities change. -- Jaime Lerner
You can't charge for anything in Brazil. -- David Neeleman
In my heart, I've never left Brazil. -- Brent Spiner
Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion. -- Gilberto Gil
Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world. -- Henry Louis Gates
Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football! -- Pele
Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people. -- Roberto Unger
It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else. -- Lionel Messi
Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. -- Bill Gates
I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy. -- Lee Pace
Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out. -- Alan Hansen
Brazil does have every right to develop its own peaceful nuclear programme. -- Vladimir Putin
Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it's widely followed in Brazil. -- Ronaldinho
The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
With 'Timbiriche,' I toured Brazil and a lot of Latin America. -- Paulina Rubio
Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost. -- Truman Capote
I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet. -- Gilberto Gil
In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil. -- Anne Robinson
Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots. -- Clarice Lispector
Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil. -- Ryan Holmes
I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil. -- Ronaldo
I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent. -- Walter Salles
I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family. -- Francisco Costa
Do you know what would keep me in Brazil, no matter what happened? Sex! -- Ronald Biggs
They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen. -- Morena Baccarin
Rico Gear. What a great-sounding name. He sounds like a drug dealer from Brazil. -- Murray Mexted
Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India. -- Zygmunt Bauman
The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil. -- Walter Salles
I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals. -- Pele
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom. -- Malcolm X
I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here. -- Eike Batista
There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue. -- John Williams
There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue. -- John Williams
Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body. -- Carmen Miranda
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. -- Oscar Niemeyer
South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy. -- Ryan Holmes
It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band. -- Fernanda Takai
We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents. -- Hugh McCutcheon
This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music. -- Herb Alpert
Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football. -- Pele
Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport. -- Marta
In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers. -- Gabriel Ba
It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't. -- Paulo Freire
After watching mulattas shake it, I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part, the ass. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
My bandmate once pissed his pants when we were playing in Brazil - but we weren't embarrassed, we were proud. -- David Macklovitch
Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup. -- Neymar
There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose. -- Bobby Robson
The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil. -- Win Butler
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt. -- Alan Furst
Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil. -- Nelson Rodrigues
The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil. -- Win Butler
Facebook, Twitter and Google have all opened offices in Brazil, recognizing the importance of localizing their products and customer service efforts. -- Ryan Holmes
I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen. -- Eduardo Saverin
Brazil has its own fashion identity. Many very talented Brazilian designers show every season at Sao Paulo and Rio fashion weeks. -- Gisele Bundchen
At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil. -- Roelof Botha
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
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
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
Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil. -- Janio Quadros
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 consider the relationship with the U.S. very important to Brazil. I will try to forge closer ties with the U.S. -- Dilma Rousseff
[Donna] Brazil warned the campaign that [Hillary] Clinton might face a question over lead poisoning during a CNN primary debate, showing her partisan ties. -- Donna Brazile
Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential. -- Vladimir Putin
The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past. -- Dambisa Moyo
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
In Brazil, we don't have Victoria's Secret, and my family are all Victoria's Secret fans, so I usually bring them back some lovely pieces. -- Adriana Lima
I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined. -- Ronaldinho
[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty." -- Edward Snowden
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
Coconut water is just the best for you; it's always something we had in Brazil. Since I was a little girl, I've been drinking it. -- Adriana Lima
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
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
There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples. -- Queen Latifah
Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there. -- Gabriel Ba
Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it. -- Pele
He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success. -- Gary Lineker
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
Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality." -- Paulo Coelho
The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with. -- Robert Nelson
One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context. -- Richard Meier
Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way. -- Izabel Goulart
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
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. -- Claire Denis
In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services. -- Nancy Etcoff
[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day. -- Carolina Maria de Jesus
To be in Brazil and see the work of Os GÃªmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me. -- Jeffrey Deitch
We can take our Japanese clients around the world. We can take them to Brazil, Europe, anywhere. And we also take companies from around the world into Japan. -- Jamie Dimon
I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart. -- Eduardo Saverin
Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil -- Frank Sinatra
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
Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption. -- Morena Baccarin
In Brazil, there isn't just one beauty ideal. There's a lot of emphasis on a woman's natural beauty - but of course, Brazilian women love expressing their beauty through makeup. -- Adriana Lima
When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials. -- Robert Kiyosaki
My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil. -- Nikki Reed
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. -- Bernard Cornwell

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