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 TAKEIShould 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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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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The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
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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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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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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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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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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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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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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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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 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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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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