LeVar Burton Quotes
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
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I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.
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If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
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I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
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I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.
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I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
