Australia Quotes

• Well, I'm very dyslexic, so I can't read music. It means I never know where I'm at so it's different every single time. I know when it works though. I might end up doing a bosa nova version of Bad Day when I get to Australia!

  

  Daniel Powter
  • Different
  • Mean
  • Dyslexic

• One time when I played Australia I had a death threat, and they tried to keep it from me, but I found out. They had all this security backstage, outside the dressing room. I said, "What happens when I walk into the spotlight. I'm a target. So I really don't need all this. You guys can go out and sit in the audience. I think you'd be a lot more useful there." If somebody really wants to do you in nothing will stop them. It's proven by John F.Kennedy, the Pope and Ronald Reagan.

  

  Liberace
  • Stop
  • Security
  • Played

• There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • America
  • Chance
  • Scotland

• It's always a fine line. If you overdo aggression it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice.

  

  Brett Lee
  • Face
  • Line
  • Aggression

• The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Challenge
  • Climate Change
  • Nuclear industry

• There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Neighbor

• If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Economy
  • Economic
  • Policy

• My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Energy
  • Play
  • Russia

• Australia's massive. I don't have a lot of downtime.

  

  Cameron Esposito
  • Australia
  • Lot
  • Downtime

• I love Australia. First of all, everyone is so nice. The people are down to Earth, and they like having fun with you.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Fun
  • Earth

• I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I mean, how much blood has to be spilled until we recognize inside of a Muslim community that with do have an ideological problem?

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Blood
  • Point
  • Spilling

• I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early settlers in the United States, and I was fascinated by those communities and how they grew, how their politics developed, and the actual suffering of those people and the tribulations they went through.

  

  Ben Richards
  • Suffering
  • Politics
  • Communities

• All coral in every world think of Australia the way that you and I think of Mesopotamia - it is the ancestral paradise of their civilization and they send it Valentines each February.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Paradise
  • Coral
  • Ancestral

• I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

  

  William Golding
  • India
  • Australia
  • Rushdie

• The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

  John Monash
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Boxes

• I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Night
  • Honor
  • Fit

• I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Future
  • Want
  • Resources

• One place I haven't made it to - mainly because it's so far away - is Australia, so I'd love to go there. I've heard great things about Australia and New Zealand.

  

  Stephen Pagliuca
  • Love
  • Australia
  • Great Things

• I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Like
  • Oil
  • Prefer

• Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • People
  • Team
  • Join

• Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Response
  • Australia
  • Seekers

• Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.

  

  Andrew Strauss
  • Career
  • Australia
  • Glenn McGrath

• Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Mom
  • Baby
  • Sun

• I always wanted to live outside of Australia... because I think it's good to see the world and get out of where you've been living, particularly if you're from somewhere like Australia, which is so isolated from the rest of the world. I chose New York because there was such a great choice of acting classes and it's such an intense place.

  

  Murray Bartlett
  • New York
  • Because
  • Classes

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