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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

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
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
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.
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Fun Needs Together
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 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
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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
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

First Lasts Secret
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
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
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 past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place

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