Australia Quotes - Page 25

• Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.

  Julie Bishop

  Genuine Concern, People, Asylum Seekers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

  Peter Scott

  Korea, Training, Twelve

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• There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.

  John Howard

  Country, Fall, Mean

  Australia Day Address, January 25, 2006.

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• We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will go over time, some of them immediately. Now that means that electronic goods and other things, white goods, coming into Australia, will be cheaper for our community. It also means in many cases that the inputs used by our high-end manufacturers to make a final product are also coming in cheaper than they otherwise would - so it makes those manufacturers more competitive.

  Andrew Robb

  Mean, White, Community

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

  Eric Bana

  School, Years, Study

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

  Ridley Scott

  Wine, Thinking, California

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.

  Malcolm Campbell

  People, Motorcycle, Bikers

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• To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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

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• England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.

  Tucker Carlson

  Israel, Support, Important

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.

  Alan Dale

  Men, Years, Play

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

  Richard O'Brien

  America, Shapes, Culture

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• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  Barry Gibb

  Liars, Leaving, Pepsi

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• Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

  Thomas Muster

  Way, Muster

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• South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

  Jay Weatherill

  Real, Past, Thinking

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• I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

  David Attenborough

  Winning, Suffering, Three

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• In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

  Marc Levine

  Years, Play, California

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all sorts of different ways. Their ethos is "collect it all."

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Communication, Eye

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

  Douglas Adams

  Country, Intelligent, Boys

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• My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

  Yael Stone

  Theatre, Actors

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

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• In Australia, kids play in American accents.

  Yael Stone

  Kids, Play, Accents

  "Meet the Australian Actress Who Does the Most Amazing Accent on Television". Interview with Laura Bennett, newrepublic.com. August 23, 2013.

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• As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand - and successful - outpost of
  Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It's a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas etc. If it was an outpost of, let's say, Iranian or Zimbabwean colonialism would so many people still be so desperately trying to get into Australia by any means necessary, legal or otherwise? It's doubtful. Thank the Gods for Euro-colonialism!

  Douglas Pearce

  Mean, Successful, Land

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• Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

  Nasser Hussain

  Winning, Forgotten, Cricket

  Source: uk.askmen.com

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• New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone. There's a nice sense of reality on the set and it's really enjoyable. There's a good camaraderie and a good banter between the obviously New Zealand and Australian rivalry.

  Dustin Clare

  Nice, Mean, Reality

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• Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hunting, People, Rabbits

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.5, Routledge

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• I love Australia - I think.

  Barry Humphries

  Thinking

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