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LeVar Burton Biography

Levardis Robert Martyn "LeVar" Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, presenter, director and author. He is best known for his roles as the host of the long-running PBS children's series Reading Rainbow, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots. He has also directed a number of television episodes for various iterations of Star Trek, among other programs.

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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.

Careers, Cobbled, Guy, Guys, Together, Universe

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

Children, Funding, Lasts, Machinery, Truth, War

After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.

Spiritual, Strong, Thinking, Years, Think

I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children in an age-appropriate manner, and as a parent, that is your job - to be discerning as to whether or not your child can handle the information, provided you have the ability to express yourself in that age-appropriate way.

Children, Job, Jobs, Parent, Provided

I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.

Band, Growth, Patterns, Rubber Bands, Sort

With the technology of tablet computers, if we bring the right content to them and distribute them ubiquitously throughout the land, we can do something about America being ranked 29th in the world in terms of our level of education.

America, Bring, Computers, Land, Technology, World

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

Children, Believe, Opportunity, Revolutionize, Educate

I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek. ' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.

Fans, Star, Stars, Trek, Vision, Visions Of The Future

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

Technology, Gadgets, Reader

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

Developed, Kids, Sexy, Technology

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

Believe, Care, Naturally, Optimally, Want, Work

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

Mean, Literacy, Individual, Society, Freedom

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

Educational, Winning, Technology, Marry, Quality, Win

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

Birthright, Human, Reading, Thinking

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Illusion, Maturity, Series, Shattered

There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.

Stars, Would Be, Malfunction, Unless, Trek, Transporter

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.

Generations, People, Proud, Sciences, Stars

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

Media, News, Updates, Electronic, Social

I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.

Technology, Way, Excited, Technologies, See

For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

Children, Book, Children'S Books, Good

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