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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

Barry Humphries

I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Bad Chic Little People Unhygienic
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
I’m an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.
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Desire Husbands Women
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
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Country Sheep Thinking
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Athletic Contemporaries Coronary Golf Occlusion
I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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Body Bother Hair Men Some Women
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Mother Night Party
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Army Children Parent
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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Country Funny Humor
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

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