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

Barry Humphries

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
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
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
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 was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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
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 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
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
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

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