Australia Quotes - Page 31

• I have a really shallow idea about what Australia is.

  Michael Bierut

  Ideas, Shallow

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• Australia seems to strike a balance between big and small. It's big enough to have that diversity, but not so big that it disintegrates into something that is not connected.

  Michael Bierut

  Diversity, Balance, Enough

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• My family still lives over there [ in South Africa] .I miss them terribly. I would say that most of my life over there was probably very similar to the sort of life someone would experience growing up somewhere like Australia or in the US.

  St. Lucia

  Growing Up, Missing, My Family

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• [Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since.

  Denzel Washington

  Years, Film, Has Beens

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• Years ago, while being in an airport in Australia, I happened to meet with David Helfgott. I knew that he was a bit fond of me and I was personally a fan of him. We were so happy to meet and hug and we had a very warm conversation together. Since that time.... about 20 years ago, I have not meet him again. I think that he is a very good pianist !

  Richard Clayderman

  Thinking, Airports, Years

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• Australia is a very healthy country which goes along with the fact that it's very high on the Human Development Index, high wealth, good levels of education. So Australia ranks right up there, second or third on the Human Development Index. And Indigenous Australians, if you treated them as if they were a separate country, would rank probably about 100th or below 100.

  Michael Marmot

  Country, Healthy, Development

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• I love Australia. I mean it's, how can you not? It's an incredibly beautiful country. I like the people, I like the country, I love it. I mean it's wonderful.

  Michael Marmot

  Beautiful, Country, Mean

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• I was born in North London, migrated to Australia when I was four. So when I first came to Australia people saw me as a little English boy. Over the years that feeling of being a little English boy diminished and I felt much more Australian.

  Michael Marmot

  Boys, Years, People

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• Australia's massive. I don't have a lot of downtime.

  Cameron Esposito

  Downtime, Massive

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In fact, soon after that [South African sanctions], I was going on an official visit to the UK and Margaret Thatcher instructed every minister to clear the decks of any outstanding matters between us - Australia and the Brits. And she went out of her way to make sure that that was as successful a visit as it possibly could be.

  Bob Hawke

  Successful, Matter, Way

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• [ Rajiv Gandhi] was very reflective and rueful and regretful about the fact that his children's education...He wanted them to get educated outside of India, but he said to me the only place that he found where they would be safe was in Russia, and he didn't really want them to be educated there! So, I said, "Well, send them to Australia. I'll look after them." And my security bloke went absolutely bloody bananas, and I said, "We'll look after them." But, in the end, he didn't send them.

  Bob Hawke

  Children, Russia, Would Be

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Thinking, Ribs, Months

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

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• Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.

  Rick Riordan

  Japan, Turkeys, Three

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• My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and he wanted to see Australia become a stronger economy benefiting from the development of our north. His life was spent pursuing that vision.

  Gina Rinehart

  Father, Ambition, Vision

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• Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Turkeys, People, Mexico

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• I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Jobs, Years

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

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• I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.

  Mary Roach

  Writing, Doe, Mixtures

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Bridges, Wealth, Port

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Mother, Long, Climate

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.

  Sourav Ganguly

  India, Pakistan, Bangladesh

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• We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Southern, Climate, Plant

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

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• Well, I'm very dyslexic, so I can't read music. It means I never know where I'm at so it's different every single time. I know when it works though. I might end up doing a bosa nova version of Bad Day when I get to Australia!

  Daniel Powter

  Mean, Bad Day, Different

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• I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.

  Jack Jones

  Scotland, America, People

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• But still it's like I said, when you hop in a cab in Italy and the guy doesn't speak English, uhh, you know, you have to start pointin' at things. You learn how to deal with it. What I'm tryin' to say is that it's not as convenient as touring in the states or say somewhere like Australia or even England where they speak the same language fluently.

  Vinnie Paul

  Speak English, Guy, England

  "Pantera Interview" by Spence D., www.ign.com. December 13, 2004.

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• Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Hip Hop, Germany

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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