“Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.”

—  Steve Irwin

from "Enough Rope With Andrew Denton" on ABC, 2004

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Australian environmentalist and television personality 1962–2006

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