Australian Quotes - Page 13

• I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

  Felix Dennis

  Country, Reading, Population

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• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

  Jacki Weaver

  Mother, Facts, Problem

  "Jacki Weaver and Jim Piddock The Five-Year Engagement Seat Visit Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 02, 2012.

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• The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Slim, Volume

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

  Hope Solo

  Writing, Ipods, Groups

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• I support all Australian films.

  Yahoo Serious

  Support, Film, Australian Films

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

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• I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

  Liev Schreiber

  Two, Dialect, Reason

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• The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

  Kevin Rudd

  Government, Games, Decision

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

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• I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.

  Kevin Rudd

  Government, Hands, Long

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

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• I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Football, Ambition, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Girl, Book, School

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts policy that is expansive, is embracing, is not narrow, is not parochial. For example, that Australians can do Shakespeare just as well as Englishmen can because we, like every civilised nation, partake of the great canonical works. It's not about Australian nationalism; it's about our identity as a culturally ambitious, culturally sophisticated nation.

  George Brandis

  Art, Vision, Ambitious

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

  Andrew Forrest

  Culture, Looks, World

  "Andrew Forrest makes biggest single philanthropic donation in Australian history". "AM" with Caitlyn Gribbin, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2013.

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• Jamie Keehn, our second Australian punter. Again, you have to learn the language. You just can't speak to those guys. You have to know how to speak Australian. ... Australians have a higher voice. When you just speak regular English, it doesn't quite get across. Of course, we've had experience with our Australians, so we're pretty comfortable with adjusting our dialect so that it fits the ability to communicate.

  Les Miles

  Lsu, Voice, Guy

  "SEC Media Days: Les Miles on Australian accents and Instagram users". Q&A session, www.redandblack.com. Jul 18, 2013.

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• An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Loss, Swimming

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• There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don't have it.

  John Newcombe

  Kids, Blood, Over You

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• It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody

  Nick Minchin

  Doctors, Taxpayers, Revenue

  "Bligh Chief to NBN Co to be Paid $450k". www.smh.com.au. November 18, 2009.

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• Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but I'm Australian. We have it all: the weather, the beautiful cities, the brand of football that involves neither padding yourself up like Santa Claus nor standing in a line in front of goal and covering your testicles.

  Max Barry

  Beautiful, Football, Country

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• What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.

  Pauline Hanson

  Beautiful, Country, Law

  ABC1 "Enough Rope", September 20, 2004.

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• [Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it?

  Paul Keating

  Years, Growth, Triumph

  "7:30 Report" interview, May 08, 2006.

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• My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an Australian accent than I have now. However I knew that if I went to England to become an actor, which I was determined to, I knew that I had to get rid of the Australian accent. We were colonials, we were Down Under somewhere, we were those little people Over There. But I was determined to become an Englishman. So I did.

  George Ogilvie

  Mother, Strong, Father

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• Let's be frank: if there are hardened terrorists [Australian] who are fighting overseas, we don't want to see those people come back to our shores. But if we could stop youngsters, teenagers from falling into the snares of ISIL or Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations through parental intervention and other strategies then, we hope to be able to rescue them before they commit these crimes.

  George Brandis

  Teenager, Fall, Fighting

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What I believe to be every Australian's right - a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.

  Bill Shorten

  Jobs, Believe, Safe

  "Bill Shorten grilled about workplace deals and campaign donations at royal commission - live". www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.

  Vance Palmer

  Cities, Giving, Creative

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• We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

  George Brandis

  Needs, Stories, Sophisticated

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Each Australian is a Ulysses.

  Christina Stead

  Australia, Ulysses

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.255, The Miegunyah Press

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