Gene Roddenberry Quotes
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
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Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
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I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
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There have been times where you do the red carpet in a certain shoe, and you go into the bathroom, you take that shoe off, you put the other shoe on from your purse, and then you walk around for the rest of the night.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
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When you're out on the touchline, like a winger, it is easier to play. You see everything: the mess, the crowd, the activity is all inside. When you play inside, you don't see anything in there because so much is happening in such a small space and all around you.
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It is the right of a democratically elected parliament to act in defence of our traditional liberties, and everything should be done to keep it that way.
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To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.
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I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.
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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
