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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.

George Takei

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I’m not going anywhere, and I won’t be silenced.
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Action Myself Politics President Silence Word
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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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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Fans Love Old Place Simplicity
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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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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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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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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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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Alone Break Friendship Home Myself
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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We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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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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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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Camp Identity Myself Realization Shame
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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Camp Life Myself People
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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Leadership Popular Validation
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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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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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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Camp Childhood Memories Myself
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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Aware Citizenship Life Passion Theatre
You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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Clothes Man Rape Yourself
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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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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