Pele
Professional Footballer
"Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!"
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Brazil
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Pele
Professional Footballer
"Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football."
Emerson Fittipaldi
Racing Driver
"I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world."
James Taylor
Singer-Songwriter
"Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch."
Clarice Lispector
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots."
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"I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don’t see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil."
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"Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost."
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"I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom."
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"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."
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"After watching mulattas shake it, I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part, the ass."
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"The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil."
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"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."
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"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."
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"In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers."
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"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."
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"Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world."
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