New Zealand Quotes - Page 2

• New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Party, Two, Ambassadors

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• In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally. It takes a certain amount of imagination to make a life on the other side of the world, the same imagination it takes to climb the tallest mountain.

  Maurice Wilkins

  War, Europe, Imagination

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• We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.

  Winston Peters

  Country, Queens, Wonder

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. May 17, 2006.

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• New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.

  Helen Clark

  Skills, Dimensions, Should

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• New Zealand’s nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox in international relations. It was formally adopted in the cold war era as a form of resistance to the dismal doctrines of nuclear deterrence. It is still a rebuke to the unprincipled exercise of economic power and military might.

  David Lange

  Military, War, Exercise

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.

  John Oliver

  Role Playing, Roles, Welcome

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• New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.

  Josh Lewsey

  Team, Skills, World

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• Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

  David Lange

  United States, Answers, Might

  "Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange" compiled by David Barber, 1987.

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• Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

  Bret McKenzie

  Guy, Musical, Looks

  "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.

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• I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family.

  Bret McKenzie

  Missing, Family And Friends

  "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.

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• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  Barry Humphries

  Country, Thinking, Sheep

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

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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 took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

  Jane Campion

  Running, Winter, Cutting

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.

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• There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out.

  Nicolas Cage

  Two, Australia, Long

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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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• New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues,
  which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in
  international labor issues.

  Helen Clark

  Rights, Issues, Quiet

  "New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: In Search of a Nation's Soul". Time Magazine Interview, content.time.com. August 14, 2000.

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• In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

  Helen Clark

  Thinking, Views, Roles

  "New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: In Search of a Nation's Soul". Interview, content.time.com. August 14, 2000.

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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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• Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.

  Ian Mckellen

  Taken, Adventure, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Dream, Kind, My Family

  "The Playlist Profile: Melanie Lynskey Talks Hollywood, ‘Hello I Must Be Going,’ ‘Heavenly Creatures’ & More" by Maris James, www.indiewire.com. September 04, 2012.

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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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• New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Bowlers, Very Good

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• I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.

  Kevin Nealon

  Firsts, Aliens, Film

  "Paul Mann: Master Comedian Kevin Nealon Talks About His Career, Tour". Interview with L. Paul Mann, www.noozhawk.com. January 13, 2012.

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• I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

  Helen Clark

  Independent, Thinking, Reality

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