George Takei on camp
George Takei45 quotes“My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.”
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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.
George TakeiGeorge Takei 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.
George TakeiGeorge Takei I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
George TakeiGeorge Takei Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
George TakeiGeorge Takei Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
George TakeiGeorge Takei We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
George TakeiGeorge Takei 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 TakeiGeorge Takei 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.
George TakeiGeorge Takei Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
George TakeiGeorge Takei To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
George TakeiGeorge Takei 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.
George TakeiGeorge Takei But when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
George TakeiGeorge Takei Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
George TakeiGeorge Takei 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.
George TakeiGeorge Takei I’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.
George TakeiGeorge Takei Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
Al AlvarezAl Alvarez I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.
Akshay KumarAkshay Kumar Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp.
Ajay NaiduAjay Naidu My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.
Adrien BrodyAdrien Brody The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime.
Adam ParfreyAdam Parfrey
