Australia Quotes - Page 3

• At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Funny, Humor, Judging

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• Australia is the most isolated continent.

  Jared Diamond

  Isolated, Continents

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• I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

  Russell Crowe

  Moving, England, Los Angeles

  New York Daily News, 2000.

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• As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

  Kevin Rudd

  Apology, Past, Years

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

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• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Beautiful, Memorable, World

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• I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

  Hugh Jackman

  Italian, Korean Food, Australia Day

  As quoted in "Hugh Jackman Calls Daughter "White Foods Girl", OK Magazine, June 2, 2011.

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• What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money is to a Swiss, that is outdoor-life to an Australian. It is a noble mania, better than vodka, better than cool reserve, better than money.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• Why are people so unkind?

  Kamahl

  Wisdom, People, Unkind

  "Q&A with Kamahl: why is Hey Hey so unkind?". Interview with Melanie Mahony, www.crikey.com.au. October 9, 2009.

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• I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Average

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• I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

  Diane Cilento

  Stupid, Years, Two

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• I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

  Helen Reddy

  Careers, Years, United States

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• It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

  Ben Chifley

  Wisdom, Bail, Cows

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• Has every oyster a different taste?

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Oysters, Different

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.415, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Underdog, Sides

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.417, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Country, Couple

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• In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Desire, Indulgence

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

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• I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, People, Rich

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.414, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Art, Mean

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• Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

  Hugh Jackman

  Government, Years, White

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• Never complain, never explain personal motto of

  Kerry Packer

  Humor, Complaining, Motto

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• A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Opportunity, Next

  "Australia's apology in full". www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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• There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Wisdom, States, Ruined

  Catherine Helen Spence (1907). “State Children in Australia: A History of Boarding Out and Its Developments”

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• With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

  Shane Warne

  Attitude, Ambition, Player

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