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 TAKEIAnd 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.
More George Takei Quotes
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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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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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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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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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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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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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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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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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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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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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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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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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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.
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