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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

He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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
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
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
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 can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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Century Joke Laughing Missing
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
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

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