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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More George Takei Quotes
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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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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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My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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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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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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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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And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
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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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I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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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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