LeVar Burton Quotes
We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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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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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.
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Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.
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I play myself every day, and it's quite boring.
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You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.
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I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?
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Artie is as engrained in the 6O Minutes DNA as anyone. As our director, Artie, with his exquisite taste, created the look of the show, one we never abandoned in all our years on the air.
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We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
