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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.

Barry Humphries

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
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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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’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
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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 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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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
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

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