Australia Quotes - Page 14

• A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript of a talk to a writers conference in Australia in 1996, where I had been asked to talk on "writers and intellectual responsibility" - a question that I said I found "puzzling," because I knew of nothing to say about it beyond truisms, though these were perhaps worth affirming because they are "so commonly denied, if not in words, then in consistent practice."

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Responsibility, Practice

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• All the arguments there are against Malcolm [Turnbull] - and there are many - the one thing in which he is impeccable and why I would support him in this is that he has an absolutely impeccable record on the question of colour and race. People often wondered why. What I see as a possible explanation is [that] he came from a very wealthy family - a 'squattocracy' - and he had private education at home and then he went to boarding school at Melbourne Grammar School, one of those lead schools in Australia.

  Bob Hawke

  Home, School, Race

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that, "If Australia keeps going the way it is, it will finish up the poor, white trash of Asia." And he was right, because we were just going backwards.

  Bob Hawke

  White, Yew, Way

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

  Bob Hawke

  Bills, Wells, University

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Country, Hip Hop, Towns

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think there's just a lot of apprehension in Australia about the Trump victory. It's not that there are - some people are supportive, of course, and some people are dismayed by it. I think one thing that draws most people together - maybe 80 percent of the people - is a very strong view of American leadership and the American alliance.

  Richard Glover

  Strong, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China. China's been doing relatively well. So some of the tensions around a low-wage economy haven't quite happened here in the same way as they have in the United States.

  Richard Glover

  Years, Way, United States

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China.

  Richard Glover

  Years, China, Trade

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Video, Machines

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• I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later lived in England. I saw all these war movies that came out shortly after the war, and they were all about the war being fought by Englishmen or Americans, there were no other "allies" in it - from India or Australia, etc.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Growing Up, War, Allies

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do think that there's a special connection between Australia and America. It's kind of unexplainable. It's just one of those things. It's all about God's timing. We're thankful to be a part of it.

  Reuben Morgan

  Thinking, America, Special

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

  David Attenborough

  Winning, Suffering, Three

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• South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

  Jay Weatherill

  Real, Past, Thinking

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• Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

  Thomas Muster

  Way, Muster

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• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  Barry Gibb

  Liars, Leaving, Pepsi

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• We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

  Richard O'Brien

  America, Shapes, Culture

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• I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.

  Alan Dale

  Men, Years, Play

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.

  Tucker Carlson

  Israel, Support, Important

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.

  Malcolm Campbell

  People, Motorcycle, Bikers

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• In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

  Marc Levine

  Years, Play, California

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all sorts of different ways. Their ethos is "collect it all."

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Communication, Eye

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as the other was very similar to what we find in Australia, which is that the image of Islam is a constructed image in the West. We are starting from a point of view that Islam and Muslims - well Islam is a violent, misogynistic, hateful religion and that is where the debate always starts from - that presumption underlies the discourse.

  Reza Aslan

  Views, Islam, West

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I love Australia - I think.

  Barry Humphries

  Thinking

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• Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hunting, People, Rabbits

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.5, Routledge

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