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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.

George Takei

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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Aware Citizenship Life Passion Theatre
Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
GEORGE TAKEI

Citizenship Duty Galaxy Vote
I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
GEORGE TAKEI

Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Ethics Faith Hurt Law Moral People Religion True Yourself
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 TAKEI

Camp Life Myself People
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Economics Head Hope Move Planet Suffering
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Establishment Help Notion Public Religion Service Simplicity Thinking
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
GEORGE TAKEI

Leadership Popular Validation
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
GEORGE TAKEI

Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem
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 TAKEI

Alone Break Friendship Home Myself
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Adversity Character Equality Faith Mindset People
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
GEORGE TAKEI

Hero Surface
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
GEORGE TAKEI

Human Ignorance Philosophy Pride Worst
It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
GEORGE TAKEI

Busy Different Hard Hate Laughter Togetherness Yourself
You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
GEORGE TAKEI

Clothes Man Rape Yourself
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 TAKEI

Camp Identity Myself Realization Shame

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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