Australia Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

  Jan Morris

  Country, Expectations, Fulfillment

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be.

  George Brandis

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.

  George Brandis

  Artist, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I don't have a problem with nudity. I never have. I was born naked. I'd like to buried naked. It's a way of life in Australia.

  Elle Macpherson

  Naked, Way, Problem

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• If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

  Nellie Melba

  Writing, Heart, Wish

  1925 Melodies and Memories, ch.1.

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• I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.

  Graeme Base

  Stars, Eight, Ships

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• I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Desert, Mars, Goes On

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• In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!

  Ellie Goulding

  Memories, Nice, Friendly

  "Interview: Ellie Goulding on her upcoming 2014 New Zealand 'Halcyon Days' Arena tour!". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 14, 2013.

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• Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand - will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.

  Arthur Kemp

  Russia, Europe, America

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• Im the guy wholl drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping in. Im the guy wholl fly to Australia and find a gym. Fly back and first thing I do off the plane is work out before I shower or eat.

  John Cena

  Sleep, People, Work Out

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• Whenever I hear an American say Aussies drive on the 'wrong side of the road,' I just lose it. You ever think about how those people grew up driving on the 'wrong side of the road,' watched a lot of people get hurt on the 'wrong side of the road,' die on the 'wrong side of the road,' while other people cheered from the 'right side of the road'? Australia has a thing called Highway Fights, so it's touchy.

  Russell Crowe

  Hurt, Fighting, Thinking

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• There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, World, Neighbor

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• I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.

  Rebel Wilson

  Country, School, Years

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• I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.

  Suzi Quatro

  Country, Thinking, Identity

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• I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

  Jessica McNamee

  Aunt, People, Tree

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• When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.

  Deborah Kara Unger

  Art, School, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

  Bill Shorten

  Party, Ideas, Long

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

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• When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Kids, Winning, Cups

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

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• I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

  Jessi Klein

  Koalas, Want, Goofy

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• The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

  Richie Benaud

  Jam, Tyres, Radio

  Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better... Just bloody play better.... I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!!

  Michael Vaughan

  Play, Bats, Communicate

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• I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists, and there are the humanities people, and there are chemists and the physicists and everybody snipes at everybody else and inter-disciplinary communication is rare. But it's very precious and necessary.

  Richard Lewontin

  Communication, America, Discipline

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was the most I felt at home, I still was a foreigner. I missed Australia, and I can't tell why. It's just this is what I grew up with and this is the things I wanted to make meaning of in my life.

  Richard Meale

  Home, Spain, Not Happy

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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• When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

  Ken Ham

  Book, Reading, School

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