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- Nov 07, 2020
Australians Quotes
Sayings on stereotypes, pride, and everyday life down under.
These quotes explore common outsider assumptions about Australians, from beach-culture stereotypes that don't hold up once you leave the coast, to observations about national pride and personal taste.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Big Cities
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh.
- Nov 07, 2020
With Australians we're saying we're going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing I can do for someone who's not in a job is get them in a job, and this government has had the greatest success of any government at getting Australians into work.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are more Australians making it in Hollywood... we have a fantastic reputation for having a great work ethic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Australians have a scientific approach and a very strong professionalism, a passion to do the best. Theirs is the best wool. And Loro Piana wants the best.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.
- Australia
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020