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 TAKEIIt’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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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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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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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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We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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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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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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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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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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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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My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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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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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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We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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