It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
BARRY HUMPHRIESNever be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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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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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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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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I love Australia – I think.
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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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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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
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