Quotes about australia
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Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that. Andre Benjamin
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We haven't heard, but we would hope that if he had intended to pull out of the Australian Open, he would have made the announcement for both tournaments at the same time. We're hopeful that he'll recover in time. John Lindsay
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner. Barry Humphries
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We are in the midst of trying to fit Australia into the schedule after we go to Japan in January, Howie Dorough
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Well, good luck to you, kid! I'm going to write the Great Australian Novel. Patrick White
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We were in the Green Room watching Elvis Costello, and I thought it was pretty good. He still is not that bad. But we were told he was a huge fan. Maurice Gibb
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Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors. Thomas Muster
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Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is. Ricki-Lee Coulter
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Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world. Tony Abbott
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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society
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I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
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When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
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The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
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Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia. Steve Irwin
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Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.
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Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all. Stephen Fry
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The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action. Richie Benaud
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Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'? Steven Wright
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Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia. Sourav Ganguly
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In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. Thomas Keneally
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Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent. Richard Allen
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I try to get back to Australia as much as possible. Teresa Palmer
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It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia. Kevin Rudd
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If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.
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Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to. Pat Oliphant
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music. Nick Cave
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It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.
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I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House. Nik Wallenda
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We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge. Mia Wasikowska
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Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days. Michael Leunig
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Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.
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(Lee's) had a pretty hectic season, he's played nearly every game for Australia and he's done exceptionally well for us. He's bowled fast all the time so, once again, he's another one of those players that we're really going to have to manage a little bit, possibly a little bit better, in the future.