Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI’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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I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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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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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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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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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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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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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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I love Australia – I think.
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