Australian Quotes - Page 5

• If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

  Jonathan Aitken

  Food, Glasses, Hands

  Jonathan Aitken (1971). “Land of Fortune: A Study of the New Australia”, London : Secker and Warburg

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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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• To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique.

  Steve Waugh

  Helping Others, Unique, Support

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• There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.

  Michael Hutchence

  Brother, School, Australia Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Vocabulary

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.130, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

  Karrie Webb

  Food, Thinking, World

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• Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

  Jacqueline McKenzie

  School, Character, Independent

  "IGN Interview: The 4400's Jacqueline McKenzie". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. August 24, 2006.

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• The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I’m looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.

  Mark Philippoussis

  World, Rivals, Lines

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• Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble and you’ll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you’ll have World War III. Been there, done that!

  Jeremy Grantham

  War, Optimistic, Thinking

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• I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

  Joey Santiago

  Accents, I Can

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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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• The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and leverage off all in our organisation, not just our senior officers, our IQ will be awesome. Then there will be no job which is beyond us.

  Ken Gillespie

  Leadership, Senior, Jobs

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• It was always intended, though, that where Australian workers could negotiate better benefits as well with their employer, that those benefits come in in addition to the existing paid parental leave scheme.

  Chris Bowen

  Benefits, Employers, Schemes

  "Josh Frydenberg confirms wife used two parental leave schemes - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2015.

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• In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple of years. That is going to slow down the Australian economy. It's bad for households.

  Joe Hockey

  Couple, Moving, Average

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.

  Peter Costello

  Strong, Australia, Becoming

  Peter Coleman, Peter Costello (2009). “The Costello Memoirs”, p.379, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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• I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Teenager, Idols, Different

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• And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).

  Guy Deutscher

  Animal, Vegetables, Two

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• Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.

  David Pryce-Jones

  Ambition, Men, Small Numbers

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• As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Today, Students, Graduates

  "Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Validation of Continental Drift", pp. 160-161, 1977.

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• The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

  Paul Keating

  Party, Two, Together

  "Keating criticises ALP over compulsory super plan". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. March 5, 2007.

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• Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

  Yahoo Serious

  Years, Two, Numbers

  "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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• 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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• Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Children, Hands, Wife

  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.61, Wakefield Press

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• Muslims are not compatible with the Australian way of life because they have a different region code

  Pauline Hanson

  Different, Way, Code

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