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German-born American actor, Birth: 16-2-1957 LeVar Burton Quotes
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I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being
LeVar Burton

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I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
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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.
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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.
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For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.
LeVar Burton

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I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
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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.
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Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.
LeVar Burton

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Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
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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.
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If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
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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.
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There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
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I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
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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.
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All literature is political.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.
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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.
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For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.
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I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
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We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
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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