You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
GEORGE TAKEIWell, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
More George Takei Quotes
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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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 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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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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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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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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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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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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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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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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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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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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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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My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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