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.
GEORGE TAKEIPlays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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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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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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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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