Banjo Paterson Quotes
He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die - There was courage in his quick impatient tread; And he bore the badge of gameness in his bright and fiery eye, And the proud and lofty carriage of his head.
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We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.
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Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.
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Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
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I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
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I love horses.
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Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.
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Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.
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We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.
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There's no magic solution for us, we just don't have the resources at the moment. The guys we've got here are the best front-rowers in Australia at the moment.
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I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.
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I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.
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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
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Life, as I came to know it, revolved round feeding the horses, preparing them for work and making the implements they were to haul. Horses pulled wagons; they hauled the wool and the wheat and the merchandise. They had to be shod, and the harness and other equipment kept in repair.
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When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
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He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.
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I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
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Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.
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I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.
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It was awesome. Still trying to figure out how David Ortiz does it. We all would like to have a smidgen of what he's got going for him.
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When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.
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He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die - There was courage in his quick impatient tread; And he bore the badge of gameness in his bright and fiery eye, And the proud and lofty carriage of his head.
