Australian Quotes - Page 3

• Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

  Robert Moss

  Hunting, Forever, Stories

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• We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

  Yahoo Serious

  Cheer, Hollywood, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, People, Missing

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• The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

  Robin Boyd

  Elements, Architecture, Suburbs

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• 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Years, Icons, America

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• People often presume I'm from whatever country they're from. So Americans presume I'm American and the British presume I'm British. And they're surprised to discover I actually am Australian. And actually some Australians are surprised too.

  Garth Nix

  Country, People, British

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Democracies Have, Australia Day

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.89, Pluto Press

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• I do greatly admire Australian artists.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Artist, Admire

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• The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

  Simon Barnes

  Dresses, Green, Chips

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• I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

  Steve Irwin

  Proud

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• My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'

  Jane Caro

  Leadership, Girl, Office

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• Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

  Yahoo Serious

  Would Be, Stories, Able

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

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• There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. That I can get into. Teach me Australian Hip-Hop culture. Don't come to America and try to convince me that you're Gangsta Boo...We're not going to believe you if you're trying to convince us that you're out here trap shooting.

  Rah Digga

  Girl, Believe, Gangsta

  "Iggy Azalea Responds to Female Rapper Rah Digga's Diss About Not Being "Real" Hip-Hop" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. September 25, 2014.

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• I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

  Arthur Boyd

  Stress, Landscape, Metaphysical

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• By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Home, School, Cities

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

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• As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Party, Priorities

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• As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

  Kevin Rudd

  Apology, Past, Years

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

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• We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

  Kevin Rudd

  Moving, Firsts, Recognition

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

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• There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

  Yahoo Serious

  Australia Day, Stories, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.

  Thomas Keneally

  Nice, Reading, Past

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• Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity of it, something about the colours of Australia. And hopefully, something optimistic about Australian painting too.

  Ken Done

  Art, Optimistic, Australia

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• And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

  Graeme Murphy

  Anniversary, Australia Day, 50th Birthday

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• Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams of people on the frontline in the battle against feral animals, wildfires and noxious weeds. Science underpins everything we do.

  Kristy Hinze

  Weed, Team, Animal

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• It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

  Luis Suarez

  Football, Thinking, Guy

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• You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

  Steve Irwin

  Humor, Worst, Knows

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