LeVar Burton Quotes

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

LeVar Burton

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• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Work
  • Together
  • Energy

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happy
  • Equality
  • Be Happy

• I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Pictures

• Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Would
  • Definitely
  • Ralph

• It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Control
  • Grow
  • Plants

• Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Case
  • Commercial

• In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Rock
  • Serious
  • Self

• Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • World
  • You
  • Language

• I have confidence in my game. I can get up and run the floor to the best of my ability, and above all, I'm going to play my hardest.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Game
  • Best

• What do you get when you fall in love?You only get lies and pain and sorrowSo, for at least, until tomorrowI'll never fall in love again

  

  Hal David
  • Fall
  • Pain
  • Lies

• It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Hate

• One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • May
  • Business
  • Lost

• When you get into a production, there are a lot of things you have to hit to make the show work - like my cues or a cue for another person or making sure you don't mess up the beat, and you can let all of that get in the way.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Up
  • Work

• Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Empowering

• There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski
  • Action

• If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

  

  Mel Brooks

• The position of woman has doubtless been elevated through the influence of Christianity, but... it is probably fair to say that most of the great Churches through their teaching and organization have exerted a conservative and retarding influence on the rise of woman to equality with man.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Organization
  • Equality

• The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Perception
  • Greatness
  • Chief

• My first book, 'Contest,' had a guy fighting aliens in the New York Public Library. The second book, 'Ice Station,' and 'Temple' were present-day military thrillers.

  

  Matthew Reilly
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Fighting

• Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

  

  LeVar Burton