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I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

LeVar Burton

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LeVar Burton
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 16
Actor
Film Director
Podcaster
Television Actor
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I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
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We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
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There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
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I want to live in an America where we are able to marshal all the resources we have at our disposal and that we - people like me, and companies like Apple and Intel and others - can make it our business to put a tablet computer in the hands of every single kid in America. Every single kid.
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Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
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I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being
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All literature is political.
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And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
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Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.
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It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.
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Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.
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As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
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If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
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That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.
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We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
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I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
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Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
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I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
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