LeVar Burton Quotes

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.

LeVar Burton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1957

Topics

ImaginationBookReadingProcessYou

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

Joe Manganiello

MenMeImpossibleAmericanWatch

We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.

Joe Gebbia

DayCreativeShipEmployeesNewUp

There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.

John Grisham

WordsNobodyKnowThreeKnowsThird

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

Andrew Weil

DieYouRunWayHumanFirst

A moderate tax on robots, even a temporary tax that merely slows the adoption of disruptive technology, seems a natural component of a policy to address rising inequality. Revenue could be targeted toward wage insurance, to help people replaced by new technology make the transition to a different career.

Robert J. Shiller

TechnologyPeopleHelpInsuranceNew

The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.

Matthew Pearl

LoveHistoryIdeasBookWillMore

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Anish Kapoor

LifeI AmProudRichPowerfulAm

I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.

Jeffrey Tambor

WorkGreatYouActingLostKnow

Here's my challenge to the real men out there; it's very simple. If you have a good marriage, talk about it. If you love your wife, say it. If some moron tells you that you're merely a 'newlywed' or that you're still just 'too young to understand,' correct them.

Steven Crowder

LoveGoodMarriageChallengeSimple

I love finding out why people don't love things. And if you ask people why they don't like things, particularly when they get into this sort of culture box, you find out that they're not liking things because of what people are going to think about them, and not because of what the things actually sound like.

Stew

LoveCulturePeopleThinkFinding

I was also so happy to learn how to do the Djatence. Djatence is when you show your clothes off in the street - it's something between a dancing, showing off, and trying to get attention turned on you. It was a really cool experience with people who are more refined than I could imagine.

Stromae

ExperienceHappyPeopleCoolLearn

A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick.

Cornelia Parker

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