Australian Quotes - Page 9

• It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse and challenging roles will be remembered as some of the great performances by an Australian actor.

  Kevin Rudd

  Lost Ones, Challenges, Roles

  "In quotes: Heath Ledger tributes", news.bbc.co.uk. January 23, 2008.

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• The Labor Party has always - always been praised as leaders. In fact, there's probably more books written about ALP leaders and the ALP people than the Libs or anyone else in Australian's history, but there was substance to it.

  Warren Mundine

  Party, Book, People

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• When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Winning, Years

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• I noticed - and this is one of the people don't understand of Tony [Abbot] - he grew. To me he grew as opposition leader. He come in - he wasn't really good at the beginning when he was opposition leader. He won the confidence of the Australian people and got the job as Prime Minister. He grew in Indigenous affairs. To me, we just totally disagreed in it, but now we're very much one on one on it.

  Warren Mundine

  Jobs, People, Leader

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• In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes.

  Steve Carell

  Real, Giving, Onions

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• If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

  Nick Cave

  Odds, People, Silence

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• What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Guy, India, Ifs

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

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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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• At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Leadership, Country, Children

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• I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected things. I think that's almost been part of Australian culture, which is why I think Movember is really important. We need to change that outlook.

  James Magnussen

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

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• When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

  Julie Bishop

  Opportunity, Government, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost confidence in the Australian political class. One reason is that we like to place enormous burdens of expectations on modern political leaders. To be sure such expectations aren't always honest. Just as we want better public services but object to paying the higher taxes that would make them possible, we often want leadership but only if there aren't hard choices with real consequences.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Real, Class

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• The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.

  Tony Abbott

  Mother, Practice, Abortion

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• Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

  Tony Abbott

  Differences, Problem, Bigs

  Abbott, Tony, Tony Abbott (2009). “Battlelines”, p.172, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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• It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will remember for the rest of their life. It is true. That moment when you walk into the Olympic Stadium as part of the Australian Olympic Team, is a moment that I will never forget.

  Jeff Fenech

  Team, Athlete, Opening Ceremony

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• I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.

  Yevgeny Kafelnikov

  Winning, Years, Tennis

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• Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

  David Chalmers

  Sympathy, Versions

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• If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and ABC would do that. They only show the finals. That's always been the case. They don't want to give the time to the biggest tournament we have in the United States. Any other country, it's everywhere -- front page of the main paper, front page of the sports section. We haven't had that here.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Sports, Country, Australia

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• But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Thinking, Important, Directors

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• By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

  Bob Hawke

  Children, Poverty

  "No child will live in poverty? 30 years on, Bob Hawke's promise remains an elusive goal" by Michael Koziol, www.smh.com.au. June 13, 2017.

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• 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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