Australian Quotes - Page 11

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

Yahoo Serious

Years, Worry, Culture

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.

Andrew Bogut

People, Laid Back, Culture

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

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Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

Gough Whitlam

Memorable, Years, Australia

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You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.

Rose Byrne

Magazines, Streets, Flashy

"Glenn Close and Rose Byrne's Fashion Face-Off" by Laura Morgan, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 16, 2009.

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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

Radha Mitchell

Just Being, Whole

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As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of those who had gone before, were all up there, and I could visualise, I could hear voices and amongst those voices was the voice of my grandfather saying, 'It's alright now boy, you are finally in the council with the Australian Elders. Everything is now going to be alright.'

Neville Bonner

Leadership, Boys, Race

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I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

Jared Harris

Children, Dad, Father

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But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

Rod Taylor

Boxing, Surfing, Clubs

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I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like I couldn't serve at all. I had a lot of pain. I decided to stop because without the serve it doesn't make any sense. It's better to stop and try to recover. If you play, you play 100 percent, not to suffer on the court...Hopefully I'll be ready for the Australian Open. I'll ask for a late start and try to recover. I can playing forehand, backhand, anything except serve.

Marat Safin

Pain, Play, Yesterday

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When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

Michael Short

Leadership, Lying, Greatness

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The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.

Tony Abbott

Mother, Practice, Abortion

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Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

Tony Abbott

Differences, Problem, Bigs

Abbott, Tony, Tony Abbott (2009). “Battlelines”, p.172, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will remember for the rest of their life. It is true. That moment when you walk into the Olympic Stadium as part of the Australian Olympic Team, is a moment that I will never forget.

Jeff Fenech

Team, Athlete, Opening Ceremony

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I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Winning, Years, Tennis

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If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and ABC would do that. They only show the finals. That's always been the case. They don't want to give the time to the biggest tournament we have in the United States. Any other country, it's everywhere -- front page of the main paper, front page of the sports section. We haven't had that here.

Lindsay Davenport

Sports, Country, Australia

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But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

Michel Hazanavicius

Thinking, Important, Directors

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By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

Bob Hawke

Children, Poverty

"No child will live in poverty? 30 years on, Bob Hawke's promise remains an elusive goal" by Michael Koziol, www.smh.com.au. June 13, 2017.

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The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.

Robert Manne

Player, Government, Games

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The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

John F. Kennedy

Christian, Strong, Men

"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title you have honoured me with to bring the Australian people together... Together we can build a remarkable country, the envy of the rest of the world.

Lowitja O'Donoghue

Leadership, Country, Together We Can

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No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.

Kevin Rudd

Past, Government, Support

"ALP in 'me-too' policy mess over death penalty" by Tony Wright, www.theage.com.au. October 10, 2007.

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Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

Lev Grossman

Mother, Thinking, Facts

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I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

Mel Gibson

Country, Thinking, Good Things

"Glib Gibson Defends His 'Racist' Film". www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2000.

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I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.

Isla Fisher

Attitude, Barbie, Laid Back

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

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With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.

Lupe Fiasco

Artist, People, Musical

MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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