Australia Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

  Brandon Routh

  Couple, Effort, Able

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Heart, Men

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

  Errol Flynn

  Dream, Wisdom, Men

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.410, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Biblical, Wicked

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.417, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Doe, Firsts

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.411, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Never Trust, Given

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.410, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Inconsistency, Inconsistent

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.416, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Fashion, World

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.418, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Hurt, Mistake

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.411, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Land, Yellow

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• With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fall, Water, Half

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• Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

  Jeff Goodell

  Ocean, Mean, Islands

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• If Australia is attacked, it's no longer terrorism. We have invaded Iraq. Iraq, or its new allies, have every right to attack back.

  Margo Kingston

  Iraq, Allies, Terrorism

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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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