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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’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
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
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
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
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 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 was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports

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