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Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.

Barry Humphries

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Destiny Satire School Someone World
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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Century Joke Laughing Missing
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
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Art Past Point Seductive Song
I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don’t feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It’s worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.
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Comedian People Thinking
I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.
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Art Past Thinking
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Humor Laughing Memorable
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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First Lasts Secret
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Beautiful Men Secretary Sex Thing
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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Harbor Nature Pearls
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports

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