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.
GEORGE TAKEIWe 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.
More George Takei Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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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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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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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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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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