Australia Quotes - Page 24

• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  Manu Bennett

  Team, Kids, Dancing

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• It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

  Kimbra

  Home, America, People

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• One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!

  Quentin Bryce

  Children, Government, Doors

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• We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.

  Jim Jefferies

  Drinking, Games

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• Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

  Germaine Greer

  Gambling, Two, Way

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• The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.

  Jenny Shipley

  Opportunity, Thinking, Sky

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• . . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.

  Joseph P. Allen

  Ocean, Fire, Clouds

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• New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries

  Robert Muldoon

  Country, Inspiration, Raises

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• I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.

  Wayne Swan

  Commitment, Government, Climate

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

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• Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.

  Tony Abbott

  Humanity, Essentials, Coal

  "Coal is the future, insists Tony Abbott as UN calls for action on climate change" by Shalailah Medhora, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2014.

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• "Technology" is a cross-curriculum perspective running through the new Australia Curriculum, and there are a number of technology subject areas as well that include coding, which has not previously been part of the Australian Curriculum.

  Susan Mann

  Running, Technology, Numbers

  "The Global Search for Education: Got Tech? - Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara and in Syria, through the straits about those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.

  Edgar Cayce

  Ocean, Egypt, Land

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• Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

  Minnie Riperton

  Australia Day, Singing, Blonde

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• It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.

  Andrew Bogut

  Summer, Australia Day, People

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• Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.

  Steven Morrissey

  Kings, Two, Nurse

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• The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia’s art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Art, Writing

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• Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

  Adelaide Clemens

  Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

  Fernando Alonso

  Race, Japan, Korea

  "Fernando Alonso: 'My father was right - Ferrari gives you a special feeling'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

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• It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

  Peter Carey

  Class, Kingdoms, Consciousness

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• If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

  Kevin Rudd

  Want, United Nations, Engaged

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

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• It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

  Kevin Rudd

  Ministers, Prime, Honour

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

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• The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

  Kevin Rudd

  Strong, Government, Challenges

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

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• We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

  Kevin Rudd

  Jobs, Trying, Ministers

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

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• But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.

  Kevin Rudd

  Strong, Challenges, India

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

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