Jack Dangermond Quotes
Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
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High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
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I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.
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It would bother me if my canvases were stretched onto a frame. I never know in advance what dimensions I am going to choose.
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I enjoy fighting. It's one of my favorite things to do in the world, so I'm just enjoying every minute of it.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
