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 TAKEIIf 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.
More George Takei Quotes
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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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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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I’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.
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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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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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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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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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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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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 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.
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