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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.

George Takei

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
GEORGE TAKEI

Demand History Marketing
I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.
GEORGE TAKEI

Establishment Help Notion Public Religion Service Simplicity Thinking
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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Connection Imagination Leadership Purpose Society
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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Hero Surface
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem
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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Difference Diversity Face Humanity Ourselves Wonder
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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Leadership Popular Validation
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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Democracy Manipulation Participation People System
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Adversity Character Equality Faith Mindset People
What’s needed today, now, more than ever, is ‘Star Peace’ for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It’s called ‘Twilight’. And it is really, really bad.
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Bad Day Fantasy Need Peace Science Stardom
I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
GEORGE TAKEI

Cancel Play Season Series
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Camp Life Myself People
STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
GEORGE TAKEI

Belief Future Positive Vision
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.
GEORGE TAKEI

Character Fantasy Story
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 TAKEI

Camp Identity Myself Realization Shame

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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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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