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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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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What’s needed today, now, more than ever, is ‘Star Peace’ for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It’s called ‘Twilight’. And it is really, really bad.
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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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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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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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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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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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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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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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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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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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