I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

- Eike Batista

Brazil will change when its cities change.

- Jaime Lerner

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

- Herb Alpert

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

- Henry Louis Gates

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

- Guilherme Leal

I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

- Gabrielle Aplin

Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other American nation and was the last country in the hemisphere to abolish the institution, in 1888.

- Greg Grandin

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

I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.

- Gael Garcia Bernal

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

- Francisco Costa

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

- Alan Hansen

I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

- Emerson Fittipaldi

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

Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.

- Carmen Miranda

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

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

- Clarice Lispector

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

- Bill Gates

Brazil is living the last hours of Pompeii.

- Antonio Ermirio de Moraes

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