LeVar Burton Quotes

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

LeVar Burton

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• Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Kind
  • Style

• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Gaming

• While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Hatred

• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Human
  • Demons

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • You
  • Space

• I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Happen

• If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Real
  • Facts
  • Statistics

• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Athletes

• Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Design
  • New
  • Create

• We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Free
  • Army
  • Slave

• Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

  

  Omar Sy
  • Think
  • Always
  • Young

• A film of my life would never happen!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Peace
  • Enough
  • Desirable

• One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.

  

  F. C. S. Schiller
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Science

• Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Small
  • Know
  • Place

• Gaiaguys are free to think for themselves, and since their translations of our texts - even if these are of a preliminary nature - are sought for by many people, we see no reason for withdrawing our permission.

  

  Billy Meier
  • Free
  • Translations
  • Gaiaguys

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

  

  LeVar Burton
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Opportunity