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Quotes by Australian Authors
"The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over."
"If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness."
"Being happy is not a privilege-it is something everyone deserves."
"When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within."
"After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits."
"I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently."
"When someone else doesn't believe in you or your dreams, remember it's about them, not you."
"Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character."
"I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view."
"I just want to do something risque for my debut, purely because I didn't want to make an entrance being the pretty, sweet type that I've been seen as for the last 3 years."
"When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right."
"I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses."
"Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children."
"The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them."
"Before passing judgement on someone's choices, stop and look at the questions they were trying to answer."
"If Jiu Jitsu does not make you a better father, son, mother, daughter, wife or husband, you are missing the point. If Jiu Jitsu does not leave you viewing strangers in a kinder light, you are missing the point. If you are not better equipped to deal with the vicissitudes of life due to your training, then you are not really training."
"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement."
"I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads."
"I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me."
"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well."
"If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me."
"It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia."
"Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century."
"People die because they find living too painful."
"Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College."
"When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right."
"To get everything you want is an inside job! The outside world is the world of effects; it's just the result of thoughts. Think and bask in happy thoughts. Radiate the feelings of happiness and joy, and transmit that into the Universe with all of your might, and you will experience true heaven on earth."
"A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values."
"I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it."
"In the history of history, there has never been someone with your particular genetic make-up or life experiences. This being the case, we have no reference points with which to compare ourselves, and therefore it is futile to attempt to measure yourself relative to others."
"That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information."
"I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them."
"But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for."
"When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge."
"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea."
"This is government. There is no entertainment."
"You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed."
"Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system."
"Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it."
"Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years."
"In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school."
"Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well."
"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."
"So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy."
"I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face."
"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."
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