Australia Quotes - Page 28

• The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Land, Yellow

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• If Australia is attacked, it's no longer terrorism. We have invaded Iraq. Iraq, or its new allies, have every right to attack back.

  Margo Kingston

  Iraq, Allies, Terrorism

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• It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Hurt, Mistake

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.411, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Fashion, World

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.418, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Inconsistency, Inconsistent

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.416, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.

  Richard Glover

  Good Friend, America, China

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.

  Richard Glover

  Jobs, Laughter, Thinking

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Australian Radio Host Richard Glover". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. November 26, 2016.

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• It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'

  Heath Ledger

  Girl, Real, Hockey

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• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Nice, Swimming

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• I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

  Paul Keating

  Country, Thinking, Welcome

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

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• Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Past, Japan, Years

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

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• I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.

  Hugh Jackman

  Espresso, White, Milk

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• You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail.

  Gene Simmons

  Cities, Jail, Want

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• Who doesn't know the easy, breezy, beautiful Covergirl line? I'm so excited to be the face of the brand in Australia and help all girls find and rock their inner Covergirl!

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Beautiful, Girl, Rocks

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• To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

  Hugh Jackman

  Mean, Unique, Men

  "Hugh Jackman's Essential Truth". parade.com. April 26, 2009.

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• Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

  Hugh Jackman

  Country, Jobs, Attitude

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• Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

  Guy Pearce

  Listening, Television, Littles

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• Where the hell is Australia anyway?

  Britney Spears

  Funny, Dumb, Hell

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• In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here

  Troy King

  Justice, Alabama, Would Be

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• Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.

  John S. Watson

  Country, Jobs, Taken

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• My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Passion, Commitment, Patriotism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

  Baz Luhrmann

  World, Far Away

  "How we made the epic of Oz". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

  Amin Maalouf

  Uncles, Moving, Egypt

  "A son of the road" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• [ Rajiv Gandhi] was very reflective and rueful and regretful about the fact that his children's education...He wanted them to get educated outside of India, but he said to me the only place that he found where they would be safe was in Russia, and he didn't really want them to be educated there! So, I said, "Well, send them to Australia. I'll look after them." And my security bloke went absolutely bloody bananas, and I said, "We'll look after them." But, in the end, he didn't send them.

  Bob Hawke

  Children, Russia, Would Be

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

  Joe Nichols

  Beautiful, Waiting, I Can

  FaceBook post by Joe Nichols from Sep 17, 2012

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