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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

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 was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
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
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
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
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
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
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
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
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

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