George Jonas quotes
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“Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.”
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“Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.”
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“...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.”
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“Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.”
-- George JonasSource : 1989 A Passion Observed: The Story of a Motorcycle Racer.
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“The issue isn't gun control but state control -- obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties.”
-- George Jonas
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Source : "Interview with Adepero Oduye star of Pariah". Women and Hollywood Interview, www.womenandhollywood.com. Deccember 26, 2011.
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“I loved 'Clueless.' That was one of my favorite movies of all time.”
Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 28, 2010.
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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