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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

Barry Humphries

I love Australia – I think.
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Country Emotion Love Thinking
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
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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
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
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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
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
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
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
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 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

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

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