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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.

Barry Humphries

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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 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
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
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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Friendship Funny Mom
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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’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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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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