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.
GEORGE TAKEIYes, 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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The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.
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I’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.
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We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.
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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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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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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.
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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What’s needed today, now, more than ever, is ‘Star Peace’ for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It’s called ‘Twilight’. And it is really, really bad.
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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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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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I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
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My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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