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I love Australia – I think.

Barry Humphries

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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First Lasts Secret
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
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
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
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
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Beautiful Men Secretary Sex Thing
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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years

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