I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
GEORGE TAKEII am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I’m not going anywhere, and I won’t be silenced.
More George Takei Quotes
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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.
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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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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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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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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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Well, 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.
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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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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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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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We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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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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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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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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I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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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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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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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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