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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.

George Takei

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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Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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Demand History Marketing
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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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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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.
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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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My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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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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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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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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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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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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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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