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Barry Humphries

I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
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
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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
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
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’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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Desire Husbands Women
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
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
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
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years

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