Australia Quotes - Page 31

• I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.

  Brett Kenny

  Sports, Wisdom, Blokes

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• Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

  Cadel Evans

  Sports, Privilege, Enjoy

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• When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.

  Robin Boyd

  Beauty, Beautiful, Country

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• Most of the time when I'm in Australia I'm not really working, it seems. I'm just at home, getting on with renovating my house or writing music or whatever. So I get back to doing all the stuff that I naturally do. Whereas if I'm away working, that's all there is to do, is to concentrate on the work.

  Guy Pearce

  Home, Writing, House

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

  Peter Garrett

  Beauty, Country, Passion

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• My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

  Robin McLeavy

  Mom, Environmental, Awareness

  "Q&A – Robin McLeavy (Eva)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. January 2012.

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• I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Nice, People

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• In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Cities

  "Battlelines". Book by Tony Abbott, 2009.

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• I'd like to try to inspire the youth, that's obviously where our future is and the kids are the ones you can mould and you can give them ideas and opportunities and I'd like to try to inspire all the young kids because I had a dream when I was young, that was to play for Australia.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Dream, Kids

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• I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

  Tony Abbott

  Favour, Notion, Immigrants

  "Tony Abbott on Q and A". www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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• I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.

  Shane Gould

  Sports, Blessed, Water

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• We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Southern, Climate, Plant

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

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• Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Mother, Long, Climate

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.

  Sourav Ganguly

  India, Pakistan, Bangladesh

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• My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and he wanted to see Australia become a stronger economy benefiting from the development of our north. His life was spent pursuing that vision.

  Gina Rinehart

  Father, Ambition, Vision

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• I play in bars all the time in the States, so I'm kind of used to it. I've just got off the road with the family in Australia, and I enjoyed it but it feels really good to be getting back to doing this stuff.

  Martha Wainwright

  Play, Bars, Stuff

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• He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

  Barack Obama

  Memorable, Sharks, People

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• I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Bridges, Wealth, Port

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. That I can get into. Teach me Australian Hip-Hop culture. Don't come to America and try to convince me that you're Gangsta Boo...We're not going to believe you if you're trying to convince us that you're out here trap shooting.

  Rah Digga

  Girl, Believe, Gangsta

  "Iggy Azalea Responds to Female Rapper Rah Digga's Diss About Not Being "Real" Hip-Hop" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. September 25, 2014.

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• I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.

  Mary Roach

  Writing, Doe, Mixtures

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

  Nik Wallenda

  House, Opera, Walks

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• I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Jobs, Years

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

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• Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Turkeys, People, Mexico

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• If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.

  Frank Hardy

  Country, People, Lucky

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• Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.

  Phillip Noyce

  Forever, Generations, Vietnam

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