Quotes by Levar Burton - Page 1

All literature is political.
Levar Burton / Actor
Creativity
Literature
Political
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This wired generation is kind of cool.
Levar Burton / Actor
Cool
Generation
Wired
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I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
Levar Burton / Actor
Flags
Geek
Absolutely
Flag
Proudly
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Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.
Levar Burton / Actor
Illusion
Maturity
Shattered
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I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being
Levar Burton / Actor
Birthright
Reading
Thinking
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I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
Levar Burton / Actor
Media
News
Social Media
Updates
Social Media Media Social
Social Media Media News
Electronic
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We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
Levar Burton / Actor
Book
Cost
Produce
Way
Cost-Effective
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For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.
Levar Burton / Actor
Individual
Literacy
Mean
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There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
Levar Burton / Actor
Malfunction
Stars
Would Be
Star
Star Trek
Trek
Unless
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Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.
Levar Burton / Actor
Kids
Exposed
Sponges
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For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.
Levar Burton / Actor
Book
Children
Children's Books
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I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
Levar Burton / Actor
Technology
Gadgets
Reader
Interested
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I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.
Levar Burton / Actor
Guy
One Thing
One Thing At A Time
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I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
Levar Burton / Actor
Future
Technology
Excited
Way
Current
Learn
Revolutionize
Technologies
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Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
Levar Burton / Actor
Doe
Institutions
Library
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I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
Levar Burton / Actor
Opportunity
Believe
Children
Educate
Genuinely
Revolutionize
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I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
Levar Burton / Actor
Fans
Stars
Vision
Visions Of The Future
Fan
Love Future Always
Star
Gene
Star Trek
Trek
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It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
Levar Burton / Actor
Concern
Division
Together
Come
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If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
Levar Burton / Actor
Quality
Technology
Educational
Enriching
Winning
Content
Circle
Win
Marry
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It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.
Levar Burton / Actor
Appropriate
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As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
Levar Burton / Actor
Culture
Engaged
Format
Long
Matter
Moving
Storytelling
Forward
Moves
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We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
Levar Burton / Actor
Kids
Technology
Advantage
Engaging
Sexy
Developed
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You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.
Levar Burton / Actor
Breaking Down
Children
Ready
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Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
Levar Burton / Actor
Visual Storytelling
Because
Now
Visual
Put
Storytellers
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The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
Levar Burton / Actor
War
Children
Funding
Lasts
Machinery
Truth Is
Decade
Last
Last Decade
Sacrificed
Spent
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I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
Levar Burton / Actor
Generations
People
Stars
Encouraged
Sciences
Star Trek
Trek
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We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
Levar Burton / Actor
Bells
Reading
People Young Want
Bells And Whistles
Engage
Intent
Young People
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It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.
Levar Burton / Actor
Imagination
Devices
Stars
Today
Used
World
Actually
True
Came
Star
Creators
Definitely
Writers
Star Trek
Trek
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Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.
Levar Burton / Actor
Careers
Guy
Together
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After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.
Levar Burton / Actor
Spiritual
Strong
Thinking
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Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
Levar Burton / Actor
Imagination
Book
Common
Ipads
Process
Reading
Copy
Engage
Experiences
Ipad
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In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.
Levar Burton / Actor
Believe
Care
Want
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That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.
Levar Burton / Actor
Preparation
Reading
Two
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We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
Levar Burton / Actor
Health
Children
Depends
Foolish
Sacrifice
Thinking
Act
Afford
American Children
Bureaucratic
Nation
Generation
Otherwise
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With the technology of tablet computers, if we bring the right content to them and distribute them ubiquitously throughout the land, we can do something about America being ranked 29th in the world in terms of our level of education.
Levar Burton / Actor
Technology
America
Land
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Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?
Levar Burton / Actor
Media
Social
Why Not
Yeah
Rules
Area
Expand
Literate
Sense
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I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.
Levar Burton / Actor
Band
Growth
Patterns
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And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
Levar Burton / Actor
Computers
Home
Children
Committed
Educate
Ready
Tablets
Pound
Revolutionize
Send
Signal
Speaking
Tablet
Whomever
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I want to live in an America where we are able to marshal all the resources we have at our disposal and that we - people like me, and companies like Apple and Intel and others - can make it our business to put a tablet computer in the hands of every single kid in America. Every single kid.
Levar Burton / Actor
Kids
America
Hands
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I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children in an age-appropriate manner, and as a parent, that is your job - to be discerning as to whether or not your child can handle the information, provided you have the ability to express yourself in that age-appropriate way.
Levar Burton / Actor
Jobs
Children
Parent
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