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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

George Takei

I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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Appearance Greatness Marathon Myself Run Time
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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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem
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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We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.
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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
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Alone Break Friendship Home Myself
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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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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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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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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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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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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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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