Brazil

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This article is about the South American country. For the film, see Brazil (film).

Brazil is the largest country in South America.

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• I think an interpreter has to sing everything, to sing what wants to sing. It cannot be with that foolishness, that here in Brazil we face this thing that when one records a song, later no one can rerecord it. This is madness, absurd. Music doesn't have an owner, the music doesn´t belong to anyone.
  • Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, commenting on the excessive protectionism of composers in Brazil. Domingão do Faustão Program, Rede Globo, 2003.

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• In Brazil we have a saying, "You're married, but you're not dead."
  • Izabel Goulart, to Conan O'Brien on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (February 28, 2007).
• Le Brésil n’est pas um pays [sérieux]. (Brazil is not a [serious] country.)
  • Attributed to Charles de Gaulle, but probably said by Carlos Alves de Souza Filho, during the "lobster war".