Australia Quotes - Page 14

• Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.

  Robin Boyd

  Art, Ideas, Special

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.

  John Yu

  Years, Community, Humanity

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• The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

  John Monash

  Education, Learning, Boxes

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• One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!

  Quentin Bryce

  Children, Government, Doors

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• Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.

  Cate Blanchett

  Mean, Circus, Way

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• We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.

  Kristy Hinze

  Future, Unique, Forever

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• We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples.

  Patrick Dodson

  Inspirational, Change, Future

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• Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

  Richie Benaud

  Summer, Holiday, Matter

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• Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

  David Wenham

  Beautiful, Country, Going Away

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

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• Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

  John Oliver

  Slippers, Racist, Intolerance

  "Australia 'most comfortably racist' country, says British comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Oliver". www.news.com.au. April 16, 2013.

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• I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

  Hugo Weaving

  Film, Release, Used

  "Hugo Weaving Talks LAST RIDE, Working with the Wachowskis Again for CLOUD ATLAS and Returning to Rivendell for THE HOBBIT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella' and a multitude of them in 'Cats,' I've wanted the opportunity to actually perform 'down under.'

  Lea Salonga

  Heart, Cat, Opportunity

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• I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great insight... But when the global financial crisis came along in 2008 it was scary times if you were in the middle of building $5 billion buildings. It wasn't perfect... I think that I am the luckiest person in Australia.

  James Packer

  Past, Thinking, Perfect

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• For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.

  James Dwight Dana

  Nature, Ice, Feet

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• We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.

  Jim Jefferies

  Drinking, Games

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• Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

  Germaine Greer

  Gambling, Two, Way

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• The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.

  Jenny Shipley

  Opportunity, Thinking, Sky

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• . . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.

  Joseph P. Allen

  Ocean, Fire, Clouds

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• New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries

  Robert Muldoon

  Country, Inspiration, Raises

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• I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.

  Wayne Swan

  Commitment, Government, Climate

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

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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

  Humanity, Essentials, Coal

  "Coal is the future, insists Tony Abbott as UN calls for action on climate change" by Shalailah Medhora, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2014.

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• "Technology" is a cross-curriculum perspective running through the new Australia Curriculum, and there are a number of technology subject areas as well that include coding, which has not previously been part of the Australian Curriculum.

  Susan Mann

  Running, Technology, Numbers

  "The Global Search for Education: Got Tech? - Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara and in Syria, through the straits about those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.

  Edgar Cayce

  Ocean, Egypt, Land

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• Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

  Minnie Riperton

  Australia Day, Singing, Blonde

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