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I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!

George Takei

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
GEORGE TAKEI

Busy Different Hard Hate Laughter Togetherness Yourself
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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Human Ignorance Philosophy Pride Worst
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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Diversity Earth Enterprise Stardom Strength Vision
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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Hero Surface
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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Cancel Play Season Series
We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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Administration Division Each Other Try
If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
GEORGE TAKEI

Connection Imagination Leadership Purpose Society
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
Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
GEORGE TAKEI

Alone Break Friendship Home Myself
This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we’re not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
GEORGE TAKEI

Democracy Manipulation Participation People System
I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
GEORGE TAKEI

Chapter Democracy Glory History Learning Thinking Time
You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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Clothes Man Rape Yourself
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
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
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
GEORGE TAKEI

Citizenship Duty Galaxy Vote

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