I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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.
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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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Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
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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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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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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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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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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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