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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.

George Takei

I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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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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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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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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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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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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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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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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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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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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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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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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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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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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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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