Australian Quotes - Page 12

• I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

  Doug Davidson

  Soccer, Awards, Years

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• What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Guy, India, Ifs

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

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• If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

  Nick Cave

  Odds, People, Silence

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• Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

  David Chalmers

  Sympathy, Versions

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• I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

  Nick Cave

  Country, Influence, Grew Up

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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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• In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes.

  Steve Carell

  Real, Giving, Onions

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• I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

  Cate Blanchett

  Theatre, Acting, Feels

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• The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

  Jeff Goodell

  Political, Coal, Economy

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• The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Guy, Add, Stuff

  "The Verge: Callan McAuliffe and Madeline Carroll". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. August 23, 2010.

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• I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world.

  Kylie Minogue

  Country, World, Proud

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• If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.

  John Howard

  Australia, Community, Process

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• For me, Brett Emerton is the heart and soul of the Australian team. Him signing for Sydney FC, it has to be the biggest catch in the history of Australian football. He's a machine and he's probably the best pro I've ever trained and worked with.

  Tim Cahill

  Football, Team, Heart

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• The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

  Julie Bishop

  Economy, Resilient, Consumers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.

  Miranda Kerr

  Memorable, Japan, Different

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• It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.

  Nick Cave

  Believe, Endearing

  "Outback outlaws". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2006.

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• I conclude where I began, I was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. I was not elected by the factional leaders of Australia, of the Australian Labor Party to do a job - though they may be seeking to do a job on me, that's a separate matter. The challenge therefore is to honour the mandate given to me by the Australian people.

  Kevin Rudd

  Jobs, Party, Australia

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

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• I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

  Kevin Rudd

  Party, Believe, Men

  FaceBook post by Kevin Rudd from Feb 22, 2012

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• As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.

  Julia Gillard

  Jobs, Moving, Writing

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• Including everyone in the economic, wealth-creating life of the nation is today the best way for Labor (Australian Labor Party) to meet its twin goals of raising national prosperity and creating a fair and decent society.

  Julia Gillard

  Party, Creating, Australia

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• Carbon capture and storage, its commercial development.. is going to be the key to the future of coal. If it is successful commercially, then the Australian coal sector will be a center of prosperity and growth; if it's not successful then it won't be. I think in the long run it's as simple as that.

  Ross Garnaut

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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• At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Race, Doubt

  Charles Darwin (2008). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.201, Princeton University Press

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• Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro.

  Roland Merullo

  Country, Children, Home

  Roland Merullo (2009). “A Little Love Story: A Novel”, p.96, Vintage

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• People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Race, Differences

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• I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

  Bill Bryson

  Player, Hands, Games

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