Australia Quotes - Page 29

• Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

  Jason Gann

  Brother, Cat, Successful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.

  John S. Watson

  Country, Jobs, Taken

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• In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here

  Troy King

  Justice, Alabama, Would Be

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• Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

  Guy Pearce

  Listening, Television, Littles

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• Who doesn't know the easy, breezy, beautiful Covergirl line? I'm so excited to be the face of the brand in Australia and help all girls find and rock their inner Covergirl!

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Beautiful, Girl, Rocks

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• My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.

  Andrew Strauss

  Summer, Cheer, Scotland

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• The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

  Andrew Strauss

  Generations, Hussain, Lost

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• There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the last, and it is time we prepared ourselves for the greatest celebration of Pom-bashing since Bodyline, the 1930s cricket tour that became an international incident. That one rankles to this day and is otherwise known as the longest whinge in sporting history.

  Simon Barnes

  Sports, Team, Two

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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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