Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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.
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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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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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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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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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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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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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We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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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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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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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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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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Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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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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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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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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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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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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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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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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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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