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.
GEORGE TAKEII 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.
More George Takei Quotes
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If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
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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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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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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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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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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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We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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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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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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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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I 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.
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