LeVar Burton Quotes

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.

I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.

Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it.

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.

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.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

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.

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.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

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.

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

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.

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

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.

All literature is political.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.