Australia Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a great hang, and hopefully, be a messenger.

  Meredith Brooks

  Europe, World, Want

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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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• I play in bars all the time in the States, so I'm kind of used to it. I've just got off the road with the family in Australia, and I enjoyed it but it feels really good to be getting back to doing this stuff.

  Martha Wainwright

  Play, Bars, Stuff

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• Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be ok - that we were all going to be ok - the message would come to me in the form of a white feather. Then something happened to me about ten years ago when I was on tour in Australia. I was presented with a white feather by an Aboriginal tribal elder, which definitely took my breath away. One thing for sure is that the white feather has always represented peace to me.

  Julian Lennon

  Dad, Years, White

  "Being a Beatles baby: Julian Lennon reflects on big Beatles anniversary" by Leora Arnowitz, www.foxnews.com. February 05, 2014.

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• I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after they’ve been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know.

  Iggy Pop

  Kids, College, Thinking

  "BBC Music John Peel Lecture - Iggy Pop's Keynote Speech Transcript". www.bbc.co.uk. 2014.

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• The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

  Tony Abbott

  Needs, Lasts, Right Now

  Press Statement, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 08, 2015.

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• I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Two, Entertainment

  Quoted in John Keats, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (1970)

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• Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Beautiful, Beach, Nice

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

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• „Ma'am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. “Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.“ “Melrose,“ I corrected. “Are you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.“ „Well, my first name is Sydney,“ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.

  Richelle Mead

  Glasses, Remember You, Remembers You

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• We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples so that we may enjoy the right to maintain our culture, our heritage and our land, as a united Australia.

  Jackie Huggins

  Compassion, Opportunity, Destiny

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• Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba and Australia.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Country, Brother, Government

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• What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.

  Tony Abbott

  Iron, Needs, Done

  "Abbott accused of being 'incredibly old-fashioned' as he lets off steam", www.smh.com.au. February 9, 2010.

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• Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Thinking, Views

  "Tony Abbott on Q and A". www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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• Pick any player of the world. Make him the captain of India. I can assure you that the results will still be the same. MS Dhoni just not lucky enough to have the kind of bowlers that top teams like Australia, South Africa and New Zealand have.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Team, Player, Ms Dhoni

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• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Smart, Cutting, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Jobs, Thinking, Political

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let’s not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask CNN, ABC, FOX, The London Times, or the Australia Times. Let’s not ask non-Muslims how Muslim women feel, how they live, what are their principles, and what are their challenges. If you want to be fair, ask a Muslim woman. Ask my wife. Ask my mother. Ask a Muslim woman who knows her religion, who has a relationship with her Creator, who is stable in her society, understands her responsibilities. Ask her.

  Khalid Yasin

  Mother, Responsibility, Cnn

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• Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

  Winona LaDuke

  Fighting, Land, Two

  "Native American Activist Winona LaDuke on Use of 'Geronimo' as Code for Osama bin Laden: 'The Continuation of the Wars Against Indigenous People'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. May 6, 2011.

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