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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

Barry Humphries

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 love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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