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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

George Takei

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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Aware Citizenship Life Passion Theatre
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Establishment Help Notion Public Religion Service Simplicity Thinking
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
GEORGE TAKEI

Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem
As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
GEORGE TAKEI

Fans Love Old Place Simplicity
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 TAKEI

Camp Machine Myself Normal Remember Time
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Difference Diversity Face Humanity Ourselves Wonder
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Alone Break Friendship Home Myself
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Economics Head Hope Move Planet Suffering
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
GEORGE TAKEI

Cancel Play Season Series
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
GEORGE TAKEI

Assault Freedom Liberty Ourselves Reminder
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
GEORGE TAKEI

Food Life Order Short Sweet
If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
GEORGE TAKEI

Ethics Faith Hurt Law Moral People Religion True Yourself
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
GEORGE TAKEI

Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
GEORGE TAKEI

Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Character Fantasy Story
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
GEORGE TAKEI

Human Ignorance Philosophy Pride Worst

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