LeVar Burton famous quotes

04-17-2025

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being
-- LeVar Burton

#Reading #Thinking #Birthright
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

#Reading #Two #Preparation
I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
-- LeVar Burton

#Flags #Geek
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

#Careers #Guy #Together
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

#Stars #People #Generations
As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
-- LeVar Burton

#Moving #Long #Culture
I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
-- LeVar Burton

#Media #News #Updates
For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.
-- LeVar Burton

#Mean #Literacy #Individual
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

#Believe #Care #Want
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

#Spiritual #Strong #Thinking
If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
-- LeVar Burton

#Educational #Winning #Technology
We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
-- LeVar Burton

#Sexy #Kids #Technology
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
-- LeVar Burton

#Book #Cost #Way
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

#Children #Sacrifice #Thinking
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
-- LeVar Burton

#Children #War #Lasts
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

#Book #Reading #Ipads
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

#Stars #Imagination #World
I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
-- LeVar Burton

#Technology #Gadgets #Reader
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
-- LeVar Burton

#Children #Believe #Opportunity
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

#Children #Home #Tablets
I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
-- LeVar Burton

#Technology #Way #Excited
I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
-- LeVar Burton

#Stars #Vision #Fans
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
-- LeVar Burton

#Library #Doe #Institutions
All literature is political.
-- LeVar Burton

#Creativity #Political #Literature
Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.
-- LeVar Burton

#Maturity #Illusion #Shattered
There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
-- LeVar Burton

#Stars #Would Be #Malfunction

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