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Barry Humphries

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 love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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
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 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
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
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
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
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

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