Jakeb Miller:  

CLASS OF 1994
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Nimitz High SchoolClass of 1994
Irving, TX

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Jakeb is from Irving, Texas. Jakeb's schools include Nimitz High School. Jakeb later attended The Art Institute of Dallas (2D/3D - Multimedia) . Music Jakeb likes includes Kyle Brooks Music, Urban Dance Squad, Will Hoge. Movies Jakeb likes include Star Wars, Snatch, The Fifth Element. TV shows Jakeb likes include The Big Bang Theory, The Simpsons, The Walking Dead. One of Jakeb's favorite quotes is:""Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible." M. C. Escher "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." M. C. Escher "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." Georgia O'Keeffe "Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun." Pablo Picasso "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Pablo Picasso "My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso." Pablo Picasso "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." Oscar Wilde "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." Gen Omar N. Bradley "Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century." Greg Egan "You better lose yourself in the music, the moment. You own it, you better never let it go. You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo" Eminem "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras, teach patience to its young?" Paul Sweeney "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" Henry David Thoreau "The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines." Charles Kuralt "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." Henry David Thoreau "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Henry David Thoreau "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." Henry David Thoreau "As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!" Henry David Thoreau "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." Dr. Seuss "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." Dr. Seuss "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss "I meant what I said and I said what I meant." Dr. Seuss "My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!" Dr. Seuss "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." Albert Einstein "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." Albert Einstein "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination." Albert Einstein "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Albert Einstein "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." Albert Einstein "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." Albert Einstein "Knowledge is limited, Imagination endless." Albert Einstein (Jakeb remix) "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso If only he could see New Media Jakeb "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." Plato "it's sad that simple minds can't not graps simplistic ideas." Jakeb "Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." Ralph Waldo Emerson "The reward for a thing well done is to have done it." Ralph Waldo Emerson "To be great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" Robert F. Kennedy "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." Alexander Graham Bell "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." Aristotle Onassis "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle "Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work." Bette Davis "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." Carl Sagan "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." Confucius "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." David Henry Thoreau "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." Henry David Thoreau "The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." Henry David Thoreau "This world is but a canvas to our imagination." Henry David Thoreau "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it." Dwight D. Eisenhower "Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood." Epictetus "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." Epictetus "My fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." John F. Kennedy "ask not what your world can do for you; ask what you can do for your world." Jakeb "Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." Henry Ford "One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do." Henry Ford "I have a really good idea . Beliefs are too dangerous." Bethany from Dogma "The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for." Ernest Hemingway, said that. I agree with the 1st part." Somerset from se7en "If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame." Adam F. Duritz "Torture! Experiments! We're all monkeys!!!" Jeffery from 12 Monkeys "Angry is a gift!!! Zach from Rage Againist the Machine "Without sacrifice, without death, we would have nothing." Tyler from Fight Club "Who's the more foolish...the fool or the fool who follows him?" Obi Wan "weird is what the world runs on" Jakeb "Solitude is sought by great minds." Jakeb "Our minds are like vallies, rivers always running." Jakeb to Reyan on sleeping "The reason History repeats itself, cause the human race still has not learned the lesson on which is begin taught." Jakeb "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." Dwight D. Eisenhower "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." Dwight D. Eisenhower "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." Dwight D. Eisenhower "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots." Erich Fromm "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." Erich Fromm "Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." Robert Frost "The good man is the friend of all living things." Mohandas Gandhi "Be the change that you want to see in the world." Mohandas Gandhi "You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars." Charles Kuralt "Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." Henry David Thoreau "Warm upon my face is the Sun, as the warmth of your love upon my heart." Jakeb "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." Henry David Thoreau "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." Henry David Thoreau "Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." Henry David Thoreau "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." Lily Tomlin "Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have...Expand for more
not had one since Lincoln." Will Rogers "The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return." Gore Vidal "A good deed never goes unpunished." Gore Vidal "Now you have people [in Washington] who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil." Gore Vidal "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn." Gore Vidal "The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so." Gore Vidal "There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise." Gore Vidal "Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either." Gore Vidal "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." George Washington "On the doorstep of our future and deaths we stand. If man doesn't control what he creates then it will destory him." Jakeb "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." Carl Zwanzig "There is but only one race on this planet that matters, the human one." Jakeb "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." Bertrand Russell "By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." Robert Frost "Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?" Anon. "If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?" Anon. "The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster." Adam Smith "Don't steal. The government hates competition." Anon. "Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable." Anon. "I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!" Martin Luther King, Jr. "We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love." Whitney Moore, Jr. "I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time." Charlie Brown "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Alva Edison "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." Robert Frost "The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'" E. M. Kelly "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on." Walter Lippmann "The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability." Fred A. Manske, Jr. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche "Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war." John Andrew Holmes "Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." David Broder "All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway." Harry S Truman "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do." Helen Keller "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." Abraham Lincoln "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." John Fitzgerald Kennedy "The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." William Westmoreland "Wisdom begins in wonder." Socrates "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." Abraham Lincoln "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt "It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." Buddha "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem." Milton Friedman "Somedays my words escape me, like trying to catch sunlight." Jakeb "I play with words like childern, play with each other. Not knowing what will become of the next second, or line." Jakeb "Life's Just A Blast Cause Its Movin Really Fast So Ya Better Stay On Top Or Life'll Kick You In The Ass." Limp Bizkit "Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness." Anthony J. D'Angelo "Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community." Anthony J. D'Angelo "The best teacher is you last mistake." Ralph Nader "The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." Paul Fix "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." Stephen Hawking "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one." John Lennon "There's the TV. It's all right there. It's all right there. Look, Listen, Neal, Pray. Commercials. We are not productive anymore, they don't need us to make things anymore, it's all automated. What are we for then? We're consumers." Jeffery from 12 Monkeys "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby "I think the only way that we are going to get people into better shape, is to remove all the couches, love seats and lazy boys from the living room and reaplace them with work out equipment." Jakeb "Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional." anom "The wind in the trees reminds me of your hair in the breeze." Jakeb "You're a slave to the money and then you die, yeah!" The Verve "Science Fiction is the Prediction of Our Extinction" Jakeb "The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was before you came in." James Baldwin "You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on." Steve Jobs "I long for love like the dry grass of the plains, does for rain." Jakeb "Be not thankful of the things you have and see how fast they are taken from you." Jakeb "It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Henry David Thoreau "the wise should be the lead, not the fools with riches, a man that was once poor shall always be a better leader than a rich child." Jakeb "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong." Muhammad Ali "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Martin Luther King, Jr. "I think the dirtest word in the world is "greed". For those that wish to absorb it, destroy the rest of us, trying to pursue it's endless tail." Jakeb "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--- Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. Rabindranath Tagore "Advancements only come to those that continue to use what they know and learn." Jakeb "The 1992 words of Ross Perot are even more timely today: "We've allowed ourselves to be lulled into thinking the bills would never come due. We've been led to believe we could keep on borrowing our children's money to finance a lifestyle we haven't earned and can't afford. It can't go on." Ross Perot "Befriend the things that you detest, for you might find that you love them." Jakeb "It matters not what one's eyes see of you, but what your eyes see of yourself." Jakeb "Farewell I say to thee, gone be the days of sorrow and hurt, flurish in the love of today and tomorrow." Jakeb "May only the sun shine on your heart and never the days of dark. In this love shall you always smile and never cry." Jakeb "Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character." Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes "Release your own restrants, for those are the only ones that can hold you down" Jakeb "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." George W. Bush "The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be in power if he were the president of the United States, and the world would be a lot better off." George W. Bush "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charle
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