George Jonas Quotes
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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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
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I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.
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Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
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Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
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I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
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It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million.
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The biggest mistake to me is complacency.
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My mom always told me, 'You're very smart; you're very funny.' She never told me, 'You're very beautiful.'
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There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.
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The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.
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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.
