Australia Quotes - Page 5

• That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

  Herman Melville

  America, Sides, Spheres

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.121, Velvet Element Books

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• Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!

  Breaker Morant

  Wisdom, Military, Mess

  Quoted in Bill Hornadge, The Australian Slanguage (1980)

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• I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

  Barbara Hershey

  Thinking, Hands, Good Movie

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• Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

  Germaine Greer

  Home, News, World

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• South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Giving, Community, Political

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• I've always been asked the question, "What is it with Australian men?" It's weird because most of my friends here [in the United States] are American men. I think there's cultural differences. It's a really American thing to kind of wax your chest. As a man it's like, "Get rid of that unsightly hair!" In Australia it's like, "Mate, what are you doing? Why would you do that? Doesn't that hurt?" So there's a few little differences that keep us.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.

  Winona LaDuke

  Clever, Technology, Men

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• There are parliamentarians in Australia I really support. People through history, you know? Men like Ned Kelly in Australia who challenged ideals. Governor William McKell in Australia really set the tone of building a nation. The fundamentals of the country are built on what the governor McKell created. I think Sea Shepherd (Conservation Society) is a wonderful organization and I support what they do.

  Dustin Clare

  Country, Thinking, Men

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• In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the one before. That warming is real. Its consequences are real. And it will change our lives in real and practical ways.

  Julia Gillard

  Real, Average, Way

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• As far as I'm concerned, any Aboriginal that gets out there and accepts money that has been put out as a package for this bicentenary is actually accepting blood money. We've still got people with leprosy and we still got tremendous problems. These problems have not been our problems, they're the problems of the European population of Australia.

  Warren Mundine

  Blood, People, Population

  "The Observer Effect " with Ellen Fanning, www.sbs.com.au. September 8, 2013.

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• In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

  Peter Garrett

  Weather, Climate, Patterns

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.

  Tinie Tempah

  Thinking, Healthy, Care

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. April 8, 2011.

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• I had a very real fear of spiders until one bit me. I got bitten by a redback spider in Australia and I've never been frightened of them since. Maybe I've turned into Spider-man.

  Ray Winstone

  Real, Men, Spiders

  "Ray Winstone: My daughters are geezer birds". Interview with Paula Kerr, www.mirror.co.uk. December 7, 2008.

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• Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.

  George Brandis

  Years, Example, New Work

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We must break out of this mindset in Australia that we are a small nation on the other side of the world from the main, great Western nations. Australia is the twelfth largest economy in the world. We are a not insignificant player in commerce, in geopolitics and we must be in culture as well and we are.

  George Brandis

  Player, Culture, Break Out

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

  Lionel Rose

  Sports, Winning, Differences

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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

  Catholic, Landscape, Way

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• The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

  Colleen McCullough

  Party, Believe, White

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• If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

  Nellie Melba

  Art, Women, Perfection

  Said to the conductor Fritz Hart. Quoted in John Thompson On Lips of LivingMen (1962).

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• To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Winning, Ultimate Success

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• A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.

  Ian Wooldridge

  Funny, Country, Believe

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• Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Sleep

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• Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.

  Tony Abbott

  Jesus

  Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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• And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

  Marc Newson

  Surfing, Culture, Grew

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• My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Mom, Travel

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