Australia Quotes - Page 9

• We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka.

  Simon Winchester

  Kansas, Nebraska, Emergencies

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• Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

  Brian Schmidt

  Thinking, Free Spirit, Boxes

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• Dhoni is one of the greatest captain I have ever seen. Dhoni's record is praiseworthy. Twenty-two Test wins is not a small achievement. And the success against Australia has come against the backdrop of the not-so-good times he went through in the last two years

  Sourav Ganguly

  Winning, Years, Two

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• Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

  Steve Irwin

  Years, Crocodiles, Humans

  Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.221, Penguin

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• If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.

  Mira Grant

  Years, Curls, Population

  Mira Grant (2016). “Rise - The Complete Newsflesh Collection”, p.177, Hachette UK

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• I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

  Betty Who

  Mom, Art, School

  "Betty Who Discusses Musical Influences And Her Song ‘Somebody Loves You’". Interview with Christopher Rudolph, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

  Peter Temple

  Thinking, Crime Novels, Interesting

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• Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Farewell, Sorrow

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.499, Graphic Arts Books

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• In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

  Chris Lilley

  Hero, Comedy, Intention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

  Chris Lilley

  Writing, Feels, Qualified

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

  Chris Lilley

  Asian, Dresses, Fine

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

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• I am happy that we are not favorites. To be very honest it's big pressure of being favorites. We were not favorites last time (in 2011) too but we played excellent cricket. Similarly this time, there are teams which play on those bouncy wickets like Australia and South Africa, and are probably bigger favorites than us. But we hope that with the type of resources we have we can do well.

  Waqar Younis

  Team, Play, Lasts

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• I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.

  Christine Milne

  Thinking, Female, Roles

  "Meet the Press" with Kathryn Robinson, www.news.com.au. March 24, 2013.

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• I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and regional Australia in order to assist in the sustainability crisis and the food security crisis.

  Christine Milne

  Order, Community, Want

  "Milne baulks at more bucks for big business". "The World Today" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. April 16, 2012.

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• I have been disappointed in all my expectations of Australia, except as to its wickedness; for it is far more wicked than I have conceived it possible for any place to be, or than it is possible for me to describe to you in England.

  Henry Parkes

  Expectations, Wicked, England

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• Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

  Steve Irwin

  World, Extinction, Worst

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• I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children that a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night. Now I wonder why we're f-ked up as a race. I've read the Bible. I can't find the word "bunny" or "chocolate" anywhere in the f-king book.

  Bill Hicks

  Jesus, Easter, Kings

  "Filling Up the Hump". Audio bootleg, 1993.

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• It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

  Tony Abbott

  Friendship, Depth, Conversation

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• I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.

  Tony Abbott

  Friendship, Depth, Facts

  Joint Doorstop Interview, Launceston with Eric Hutchinson, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 19, 2015.

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• English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  People, Friendly, Way

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• In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

  Paul Theroux

  Japan, Next Week, Years

  Paul Theroux (2012). “The Lower River”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Perfection, Littles

  1922 Letter, 28 May.

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• Australia! I wanna see some saltwater crocodiles!

  Jay Park

  Crocodiles

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• I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

  Tom Curren

  Guitar, Years, People

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• If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, youll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.

  Ursula Burns

  Russia, Doors, Names

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