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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

Barry Humphries

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
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
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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
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
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’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 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 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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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 love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
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
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

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