Australia Quotes - Page 30

• Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.

  Peter Costello

  Strong, Becoming, Certain

  Peter Coleman, Peter Costello (2009). “The Costello Memoirs”, p.379, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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• I went to Tokyo three years ago. It was a job, though. I did an ad campaign for IBM, so they flew me out there to take pictures of me. It was IBM Global. It went to Australia, France, London, all over the world. But I think the ad campaign was a failure, because of me.

  Bobby Lee

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

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• I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.

  Henry Rollins

  Night, Honor, Use

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• Probably not for about 10 years, because I've got so much to do before then, but I really want to have four kids ... I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.

  Margot Robbie

  Good Life, Kids, Years

  "Margot Robbie makes it hard to Focus with VERY sexy Vogue Australia shoot" by Fay Strang, www.mirror.co.uk. February 15, 2015.

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• But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.

  Radha Mitchell

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

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• Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.

  Fred Phelps

  Stupid, Helping, Doomed

  "God Hates Australia". WBC Video News, February 12, 2009.

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• If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

  Gough Whitlam

  Book, Long, Abiding

  "Abiding Interests". Book by Gough Whitlam (Foreword), 1997.

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• Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.

  Thomas Keneally

  Dog, Ships, North And South

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• And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

  Thomas Keneally

  Believe, Dirty, Taste

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• If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

  Ned Kelly

  Wisdom, Men, Mad

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• I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

  Ned Kelly

  Wisdom, Hands, Law

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• In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.

  Richard Pryor

  Heart, Scared, March

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• Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

  Henry Rollins

  Band, Release, Contemporary

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• Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

  Andrew Bogut

  Home, America, Way

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

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• A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

  Harold Larwood

  Would Be, Deaf, Cricket

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• The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

  Hugh Jackman

  Song, Night, People

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• I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

  Sullivan Stapleton

  Play, Track, Guy

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• Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.

  Andrew Strauss

  Careers, Reasonable

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• Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.

  Hideki Tojo

  War, World, Might

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• Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Funny, Humor, Garden

  Of Australia. The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published 1859),'A Land of Plenty'.

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• Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

  Gough Whitlam

  People, Perspective, Judging

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• In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!

  Frances O'Connor

  Thinking, Two, Pieces

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

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• This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it!

  Peter Kauzer

  Athlete, Winter, Years

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• I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.

  Margaret Court

  School, People, Community

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• With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

  Bob Brown

  Money, Children, War

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