Chris Smith Quotes

There's upwards of nearly 800 franchises through Australia and New Zealand, and also we're starting to move into Dubai, China and Indonesia as well.

Chris Smith

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• I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Believe
  • Economy
  • Australia

• For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Culture
  • Australia
  • Alaska

• We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Australia

• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  

  B. B. King
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Najib Razak
  • New
  • Tax
  • Australia

• Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Opportunities
  • Australia

• A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Australia

• 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!

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Period
  • Modern

• If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

  

  Augustus
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Wife

• I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Job
  • Princess

• 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.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Work
  • Australia
  • Stressed

• I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Music
  • Working
  • England

• We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Playing
  • Australia
  • Rugby

• It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Environmental
  • Australia
  • Asia

• 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.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Magic
  • Moment
  • Australia

• There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • World
  • Real
  • Rest

• Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

  

  Cadel Evans
  • Sports
  • Privilege
  • Australia

• She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Life
  • Great
  • Women

• I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • People
  • Grateful
  • Working Hard

• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • Look
  • Forward

• To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Couple
  • Swimming

• I'm bad at returning phone calls.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Bad
  • Phone
  • Returning

• And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I know exactly what we have. And so I can then go into the editing room and be like "I want you to do this moment, this moment, this joke, that joke. I'd like to see 3 versions."

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Moments
  • Jokes
  • Rooms

• There's upwards of nearly 800 franchises through Australia and New Zealand, and also we're starting to move into Dubai, China and Indonesia as well.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Franchises