George Miller Quotes
Did you know - and studies prove this - that 98 percent of all the Visine in this country runs down the side of people's faces?
Byrne, Robert. 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said. Fawcett Columbine, 1988, p. 115.
An Aborigine herself, she had co-authored a major study of 45 aboriginal communities of Australia’s vast Northern Territory—the alcohol abuse was so great that young pre teen girls were trading sex for alcohol, parents in large numbers were too drunk to care for children. Few children attended school. Many were physically abused. The Government responded by attempting to ban alcohol in the aboriginal communities and withholding government welfare payments from parents who would not send their children to school. At the time there were 470,000 aborigines in Australia’s 20 million population.
Ford had a very serious case of alcoholism. This led him to offer a very original, but not very effective public defense of his using crack cocaine—namely that he was too drunk to know what he was doing.
George Miller, born George Wade Dornberger, was a stand-up comedian who first performed standup at age 21 and made his network television debut on The Tonight Show in 1976. He appeared on national television programs several times in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and was a friend to many in the West Coast comedy scene who later enjoyed tremendous success, including David Letterman and Jerry Seinfeld. He died at age 61 after a long bout with leukemia, from a blood clot in his brain.
