Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
GEORGE TAKEIIf 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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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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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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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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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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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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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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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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Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.
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Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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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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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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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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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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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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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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