Australia Quotes - Page 6

• I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

  Wayne Coyne

  Fun, Halloween, People

  Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

  Susan Oliver

  Thinking, Cities, Merit

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• I'm a big goofball, you know. Don't tell anyone that, but I'm a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag.

  Hugh Jackman

  Bigs, Knows

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jun 27, 2011

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• I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Doors, People

  "Tony Abbott blames carbon tax for 'uncertainty'". "7.30' with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2012.

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• In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

  Helen Clark

  Government, Differences, Perspective

  "New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: In Search of a Nation's Soul". Interview, content.time.com. August 14, 2000.

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• As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?

  Nancy Bird Walton

  Mother, Book, Jumping

  Interview with George Negus on "George Negus Tonight", March 8, 2004.

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• I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

  Gough Whitlam

  Memorable, White, Embarrassed

  "100 Years: The Australian Story". Book by Paul Kelly (p. 196), 2001.

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• Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

  Judith Viorst

  Classic Book, Children Literature, Children's Literature

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• My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Growing Up, Couple

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• That's one of those questions where somebody says "would you like to see more women behind the camera?" And then it becomes I must have interrupted the interview to make a platform stance. But, no, I do believe it. In Australia, per capita, we've got a slightly more balanced and healthier statistic than here. I've only just started working more regularly with female ADs and its just a beautiful, different energy on set.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Beautiful, Believe, Cameras

  "Toronto Q&A: Geoffrey Rush Dishes on ‘Pirates 5’ and Karaoke Battles". Interview with Brent Lang, variety.com. September 15, 2015.

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• Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe.

  Rita Gelman

  Japan, Europe, World

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• Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.

  Warwick Thornton

  Art, White, People

  Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com

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• I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.

  Eric Bana

  Strong, Children, Swim

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I could definitely see myself living back in Australia again. If I had a family, I could move back.

  Nicole Trunfio

  Moving, Ifs

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• Leave at night and you reach Australia next morning. But it took 28 years for an Indian PM to come to Australia!

  Narendra Modi

  Morning, Motivation, Night

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• 'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!

  Narendra Modi

  Empowerment, India, Dignity

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• We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.

  Eric Bana

  Children, Knowing, Water

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I thought I was actually doing quite well - I was on Jazz FM six days a week. I fancied going to Australia and I had a wonderful experience. It's changed me for the better and it was flattering to win.

  Tony Blackburn

  Winning, Six, Jazz

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

  John Howard

  Leadership, People, Kind

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• At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Leadership, Country, Children

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• I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

  John Howard

  Country, Views, World

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

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• Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

  Tony Abbott

  Numbers, Asylum Seekers, Growing

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

  Tony Abbott

  Play, People, Roles

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• I truly love Australia; I miss Aussie kids and their attitude!

  Nicole Trunfio

  Attitude, Kids, Missing

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• When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

  Tony Abbott

  Citizens, World, Trouble

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