LeVar Burton Quotes
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I know what poverty is.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.
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The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
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The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true?
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I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything else. For some reason, staccato eighth notes on a bass sounded like bubblegum. Basically, groups like the 1910 Fruitgum Co. took my early format and kind of perverted it, and made these mindless pre-fab hits over and over. In the 60s, anybody who was making commercial music, that is music that didn't have a political slant to it, or wasn't taking drugs, was bubblegum. And that term kind of hung on a lot of people back then, and it's unfortunate.
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All literature is political.
