Australian Quotes - Page 6

• I was born pretty lucky, an Aryan Australian, friendly girl, that gives you a lot of advantages in the world. I was unaware of people's fights or struggles for equality. I was really naive.

  Sia Furler

  Girl, Struggle, Fighting

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• The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And I loved Reality Hunger, David Shields' recent novel take on the art of the novel.

  Teju Cole

  Art, Reality, Australia

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.

  Keiynan Lonsdale

  Determination, Thinking, Actors

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• I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.

  Jens Lekman

  Surfing, Typical, Culture

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.

  Cory Bernardi

  Issues, Long, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?

  Sadiq Khan

  Style, Immigration, Would Be

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.

  Eric Abetz

  People, Conservative, Connotation

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Things like Kitchen Cabinet, I'm not sure they necessarily tell the Australian people whether you have judgement, whether you have discernment, whether you have intellectual acuity, whether you are able to develop policy, whether you are able to represent individual cases to the highest levels of government successfully and in a manner that actually achieves outcomes.

  Eric Abetz

  Government, People, Judgement

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The promise to take back control of our borders. I will end free movement, introduce an Australian-style points-based system for immigration, and bring numbers down. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

  Michael Gove

  Numbers, Style, Promise

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

  Andrew Bogut

  Football, Two, Different

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

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• I was talking to Australian press earlier, and they said: we never stopped playing you. I tended to forget about that. It brings a smile to your face that there is this continuing thing, that people like what you do.

  Phil Collins

  Talking, People, Faces

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Michelle Landr is a fabulous member of Parliament. She is a true representative of that community. She's a classic middle-of-the-road Australian who represents the interests of her community with passion and with a lot of common sense.

  George Brandis

  Passion, Common Sense, Community

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted in Australia, with Australian landscapes and colours. My work has always had bits of Western Australia in it. It is always here. The world comes to us.

  Tim Winton

  Exercise, Thinking, Australia

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

  Owen Wilson

  Actors, Accents, American Movie

  Source: www.mtv.com.au

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• Australian cattle dogs, are not like Labradors, where they just like to just sit around by the fire and get petted. They're working dogs, so they have a lot of energy, and they can drive you crazy.

  Owen Wilson

  Dog, Crazy, Fire

  Source: ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, People, Missing

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• The most important appointment Pope Francis has made is the appointment of the Australian cardinal, George Pell, as the Vatican's financial overseer.

  George Weigel

  Important, Financial, Pope

  Source: eppc.org

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• 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Years, Icons, America

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• The job now is to institutionalize all of that [Vatican finances], and I wouldn't bet against Cardinal [George] Pell, who hasn't shied away from contact sports since his days as an Australian-rules football star.

  George Weigel

  Sports, Football, Stars

  Source: eppc.org

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• Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Hard Work, Help And Support, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or is an element in some of my books, and that's probably a direct result of where I've grown up. But other than that I don't draw particularly on the Australian landscape or the Australian biology and so on. So I don't think there's anything you could point to and say is particularly Australian.

  Garth Nix

  Book, Thinking, Landscape

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I do greatly admire Australian artists.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Artist, Admire

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• I don't want to get involved in Australian politics. You are a democracy, and Australian people should decide who they will vote for and I'm not mingling or interfering in that all.

  Geert Wilders

  People, Democracy, Want

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• I'm not a racist.It would had also go for Swedish people, for Australian people.Of course that would apply with anybody for any dual nationality, but the mere fact would be the reality because we have overrepresentation of often Moroccan people and other people from Islamic background in a crime that they would be stripped of the Dutch nationality and sent away.

  Geert Wilders

  Islamic, Reality, People

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• I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!

  Jonathan Davis

  Kids, Two, Different

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