Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
GEORGE TAKEIYes, 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.
More George Takei Quotes
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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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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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I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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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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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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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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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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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 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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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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