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 TAKEIAs the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
More George Takei Quotes
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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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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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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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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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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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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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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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This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we’re not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.
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