New Zealand Quotes

• One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place.

  Gabriel Mann

  Lifestyle, One Thing

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• You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

  Sam Neill

  Long, Scary, Way

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.

  Murray Mexted

  Thinking, Laughing, Able

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• Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

  Richard Bach

  Suicide, Suicidal, Starting Over

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• I still had the same affection for New Zealand as I've always had. Didn't change at all.

  Edmund Hillary

  Affection, Stills

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.

  Eleanor Catton

  Moving, Different, Would Be

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• Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Beautiful, Travel

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• I've never been to New Zealand actually. All I know is that there's a lot of greenery there. I'd love to come and play a show there sometime soon for sure!

  Charli XCX

  Play, Shows, Greenery

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I've only seen pictures of New Zealand but everything I see is so pretty. Your eyes just... I don't think my eyes could take the beauty!

  Alana Haim

  Eye, Thinking

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• A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Philistines, Backwoods

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• There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Australia, World

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• It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

  Helen Clark

  People, Democracy, Ordinary

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• Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.

  Douglas Adams

  Nature, Islands, Pieces

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.120, Ballantine Books

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• The fans out in New Zealand are amazing. They're genuinely excited and appreciative that you're playing their country.

  Beau Bokan

  Country, Fans, Excited

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• If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Irony

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• I love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery.

  Patrick Stump

  Nice, Thinking, Sheep

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• And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

  Tony Greig

  Years, Asking, Return

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.

  Hideki Tojo

  War, Australia, World

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• I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

  Jamie Bamber

  Country, Watches, Rugby

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• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  Orlando Bloom

  Running, Clothes, Arrows

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• There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

  Elijah Wood

  Real, Unique, Our World

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• God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

  Russell Crowe

  Queens, Australia Day, America

  "Kiwis find something to crow about". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 28, 2001.

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• I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

  Russell Crowe

  Moving, Australia, England

  New York Daily News, 2000.

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• By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

  Jenny Shipley

  Country, Progress, Made

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