I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
BARRY HUMPHRIES
If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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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I love Australia – I think.
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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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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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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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