Australia Quotes - Page 27

• Let me tell you about Australia. It's really, really, really, far from wherever you live on Earth. You fly and you fly and you fly. Then relativity takes over and you get younger and younger. And when you land, you're a gleam in your father's eye.

  Greg Proops

  Father, Eye, Land

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• It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

  Anthony Albanese

  Jobs, Flying, Tourism

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

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• I was fortunate enough to coach the US Olympic team in Australia. The parks were full at all times. How can they take away a sport like that?

  Tommy Lasorda

  Team, Enough, Coaches

  "Baseball Suffers Olympic Strike 3". www.mirror.co.uk. July 09, 2005.

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• I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Dog, Taken

  To the Peel Commission on a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, 1937.

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• I think it's interesting that the United States and Australia are two of the most individualistic nations in the entire world in terms of national personality.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Thinking, Two, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

  Hugh Jackman

  Song, Night, People

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• I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

  Peter Garrett

  Beauty, Country, Passion

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• When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.

  Robin Boyd

  Beauty, Beautiful, Country

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

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• Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

  Gough Whitlam

  People, Perspective, Judging

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• Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.

  Peter Costello

  Strong, Becoming, Certain

  Peter Coleman, Peter Costello (2009). “The Costello Memoirs”, p.379, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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• Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay.

  Ian Thorpe

  Gay, Champion, Wanted

  "Ian Thorpe: I'm finally comfortable saying I'm a gay man" by Amanda Meade, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2014.

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• I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

  Stuart Appleby

  Mom, Dad, Home

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

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• America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.

  Stuart Appleby

  America, Community, Woods

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

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• Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

  Andrew Bogut

  Home, America, Way

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

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• A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

  Harold Larwood

  Would Be, Deaf, Cricket

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• I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.

  Margaret Court

  School, People, Community

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• But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.

  Thomas Keneally

  Sorry, Home, School

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• The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends.

  Jim Breyer

  Years, Innovation, India

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• Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.

  David Holmgren

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Long

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• For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.

  David Abram

  Expression, Vitality, Earth

  David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.179, Vintage

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• The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.

  Anthony Albanese

  Stars, Careers, Community

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

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• It's a pretty blokey magazine [Bacon Busters, 'Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig hunting'], but they have women in it too. There's a 'Boars and Babes' section: women in bikinis sitting on big old pigs.

  Andrew Symonds

  Hunting, Pigs, Bikinis

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• But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.

  Radha Mitchell

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

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• Probably not for about 10 years, because I've got so much to do before then, but I really want to have four kids ... I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.

  Margot Robbie

  Good Life, Kids, Years

  "Margot Robbie makes it hard to Focus with VERY sexy Vogue Australia shoot" by Fay Strang, www.mirror.co.uk. February 15, 2015.

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• I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

  Sullivan Stapleton

  Play, Track, Guy

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