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The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

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There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.
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Character Fantasy Story
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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Food Life Order Short Sweet
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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Age Camp Growth Myself Time Young
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
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Camp Life Myself People
I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.
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Aware Citizenship Life Passion Theatre
I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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Appearance Greatness Marathon Myself Run Time
I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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Leadership Popular Validation
It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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Busy Different Hard Hate Laughter Togetherness Yourself
If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
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Connection Imagination Leadership Purpose Society
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
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Camp Machine Myself Normal Remember Time
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
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Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.
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Belief Difference Humanity Rich Separate True
But when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
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Camp Identity Myself Realization Shame

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

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