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Barry Humphries

I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
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
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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 truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
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
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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
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
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

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