Edward Burtynsky Quotes
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
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Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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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 really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.
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It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.
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If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to your dead heart.
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There are a lot of young swimming fans that are on Instagram, so I try to respond or post things that they like.
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All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights... Our founding documents make it clear that our inalienable rights come from God and that the job of the government is to ensure and protect those God-given rights.
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I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
