Australia Quotes - Page 19

• 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 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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• 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 want faith; but I am faithless

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Want, Faithless

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

  Nicole Trunfio

  Attitude, Kids, Missing

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• Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you're going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You're just a kid.

  Heath Ledger

  Beach, Growing Up, Kids

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

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• The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.

  Tony Abbott

  Order, Patents, Letters

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I think girls who looked like me or were from the poorer area where I'm from in Australia, like you don't think "Oh, I'm going to be a movie star." You just didn't think that would happen to girls like me where I'm from.

  Rebel Wilson

  Girl, Stars, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and blow them into outer space.

  Eddie Izzard

  Blow, Government, Space

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• I love Australia. First of all, everyone is so nice. The people are down to Earth, and they like having fun with you.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Fun, Nice, People

  "Gabriel Iglesias talks about 'The Fluffy Movie', his life and cake". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, www.phoenixfilmfestival.com. July 22, 2014.

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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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• 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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• The fundamentalist Zionist lobby controls politics and the media in the US and Australia.

  Margo Kingston

  Media, Zionist, Fundamentalist

  "Zionism: too many meanings make communication too hard?". www.smh.com.au. July 26, 2004.

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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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• I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

  Don Everly

  Girl, Song, Home

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• I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.

  Sophie Monk

  America, Ends, Shows

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

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• Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.

  Steven Gould

  Snakes, Exotic, Said

  Steven Gould (2013). “Impulse”, p.13, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American... are all recent migrants from North America.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Couple, Years, Land

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• I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

  Orson Scott Card

  Asteroids

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Shadow Of The Giant: Book 4 of the Shadow Saga”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

  Elliot Perlman

  Talking, Names, Grandparent

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• In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

  George Orwell

  Country, War, America

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Giving, Feelings, Lovely

  1987 The Songlines, ch.10.

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• The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue... nor afford us any exclusive trade... is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, Ideas, Pay

  "Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden M.P". Book edited by James E. Thorold Rogers, 1878.

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