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 TAKEINothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
More George Takei Quotes
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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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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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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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Cat’s are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we’re trying always to win their love.
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We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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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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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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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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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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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that’s what’s going to keep us moving ahead.
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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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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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