George Takei Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“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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“A man who layeth with another man must be stoned.”
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“You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.”
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“Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call “the lowest common denominator of butthurt.”
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“The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.”
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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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“Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.”
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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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“I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.”
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“Our democracy is a people's democracy, and it can be as great as people can be, but it is also as fallible as people are.”
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“Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.”
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“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.”
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“I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!”
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“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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“Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.”
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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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“You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.”
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“As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.”
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“The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.”
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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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“Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.”
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“Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.”
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“People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.”
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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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“As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.”
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“The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to find that emotional pitch. And when you do something in drama and you hear that sob from the audience it's so fulfilling. But as a comic actor, when the laugh is supposed to come and you punch in that line and nothing happens it is dreadful. It's horrific and you feel like dying right there.”
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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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“Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.”
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“To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.”
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