Latest LeVar Burton Quotes from Interviews

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• I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.

  LeVar Burton

  Guy, One Thing At A Time, One Thing

  "LeVar Burton's App at the End of the Rainbow". The Root Interview, www.theroot.com. April 08, 2012.

• 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.

  LeVar Burton

  Kids, America, Hands

  "LeVar Burton's App at the End of the Rainbow". The Root Interview, www.theroot.com. August 4, 2012.

• Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.

  LeVar Burton

  Kids, Sponges, Exposed

  "LeVar Burton's App at the End of the Rainbow". The Root Interview, www.theroot.com. April 08, 2012.

• 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.

  LeVar Burton

  Technology, America, Land

  "LeVar Burton's App at the End of the Rainbow". The Root Interview, www.theroot.com. August 4, 2012.

• 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.

  LeVar Burton

  Growth, Band, Patterns

  Source: www.pbs.org

• You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

  LeVar Burton

  Children, Breaking Down, Ready

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  LeVar Burton

  Children, Book, Children's Books

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  LeVar Burton

  Jobs, Children, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  LeVar Burton

  Careers, Guy, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  LeVar Burton

  Reading, Two, Preparation

  Source: www.avclub.com