Australia Quotes

When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was the first significant impact that Homo sapiens had on the planet's ecosystem. It was not the last.

Yuval Noah Harari

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'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.

Suzi Quatro

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In Australia, kids play in American accents.

Yael Stone

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The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night!

Peter C. Doherty

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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.

Taylor Lautner

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I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.

Shaun Tan

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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.

Rachel Ward

AustraliaLivingEuropeLittleMiss

They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy.

Timothy F. Cahill

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Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

Joe Nichols

BeautifulWaitAustraliaAgainVisit

When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

Natasha Leggero

LoveArtistAustraliaConMoved

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

Rick Springfield

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I'm definitely Australian and wouldn't have it any other way. I've been formed as an athlete in Australia.

Jessica Fox

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When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.

Naomi Klein

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I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

Nik Wallenda

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I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.

John Curran

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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

Mallory Jansen

FunnyAmericanAustraliaNeverGet

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.

Mark Burnett

PeopleSucceedYouDownAustralia

There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.

Andrew Forrest

TravelPeopleAustraliaOverStay

I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

Karrie Webb

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We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.

Lionel Murphy

TimeEndPictureAchieveAustralia

I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.

John Lee Hancock

StoryKnowAustraliaOriginBooks

We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

Iggy Azalea

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I'd like to visit my friend and his family who live in Australia. That trip is long overdue.

Kenneth Choi

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When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

Robert Kiyosaki

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