Australian Quotes - Page 10

• The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.

  Robert Manne

  Player, Government, Games

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• In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.

  Andrew Bogut

  People, Laid Back, Culture

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

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• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  Yahoo Serious

  Years, Worry, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

  Yahoo Serious

  Ideas, Giving, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

  Yahoo Serious

  Race, Rocks, Government

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

  John F. Kennedy

  Christian, Strong, Men

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

  Jeff Goodell

  Political, Coal, Economy

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• No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.

  Kevin Rudd

  Past, Government, Support

  "ALP in 'me-too' policy mess over death penalty" by Tony Wright, www.theage.com.au. October 10, 2007.

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• If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

  Craig Ferguson

  Commodity Prices, Hiking, Dollars

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• Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.

  Georgina Haig

  Responsibility, People, Different

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

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• I'm obviously coming out of the Australian summer with amazing momentum, knowing I can pretty much hang in there with anybody and even beat some of the best players. So for me, it's definitely a good feeling, I think.

  Sloane Stephens

  Summer, Player, Thinking

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• I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for supplying tomatoes to the Parliament House kitchen. But, no, as I soon learnt as industry minister, it was in fact a government funded redoubt of veritable soldiers in a war against carbon dioxide. The zealotry and obsessive passion of these warriors in the battle against the apparent evils of carbon dioxide remains a curiosity to me. After fighting these people for three years as industry minister, I really did wish they would just go away and grow tomatoes.

  Nick Minchin

  War, Passion, Fighting

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• It has been a whirlwind really, it all happened so quickly! I auditioned for Australian Idol for the 3rd time... to see where I was and if I had improved with my singing; and the next thing I knew in the final 12 and it went nuts from there - I walked straight off stage at the finals into a press conference and didn't have a days rest 'till New Years Day.

  Kate DeAraugo

  New Year, Years, Idols

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• Australian people are dope. They're so fun. They want to just have a good time, and they have a great sense of humour.

  Erin Heatherton

  Fun, Dope, People

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• If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

  Nellie Melba

  Writing, Heart, Australia

  1925 Melodies and Memories, ch.1.

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• I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

  Courtney Barnett

  Band, Grew, Decent

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Australian colleagues in the industry as well as find things that are eco-friendly. I love the green concept of wearing more sustainable garments at events.

  Lucy Fry

  Support, Trying, Friendly

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• I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

  Deborah Kara Unger

  Philosophy, Rocks, Years

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• I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Games, Parent, Style

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

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• Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.

  Richie Benaud

  Media, Play, Each Day

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

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• I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Missing, Citizens

  Suelette Dreyfus, Julian Assange (2012). “Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier”, p.199, Canongate Books

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• The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

  Quentin Bryce

  Opportunity, Talking, Goal

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• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. Weve got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Children, Hard Work

  "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 22, 2010.

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• It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

  Cameron van der Burgh

  Victim, Unfortunate, Presses

  "London 2012: Swimmer hits back at Australian media over 'cheat' story". www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

  Bill Drayton

  Ideas, Sides, My Family

  "GOOD Q&A: Social Entrepreneur Bill Drayton On His White House Years". GOOD Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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