George Takei Quotes

The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.

George Takei

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• I joined NOW on an issue of pay.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Now
  • Pay
  • Issue

• Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Like
  • Anger

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Past
  • Present
  • Connect

• I am still fairly new to the whole social media thing - I am definitely tweeting and Facebooking. It's a nice way to connect with fans.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Fans
  • Social Media
  • Connect

• I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

  

  B. B. King
  • Guitar
  • Emotions
  • Connect

• Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Authority
  • Issue
  • Defending

• My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.

  

  Adele
  • Music
  • Fear
  • Worst

• Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Girl
  • Army
  • Vampire

• have worked very hard for two years to resolve this difficult issue. The only way to resolve it is diplomatically. But the Iranian president has offered nothing in this speech to suggest that he wants to abide by the agreement Iran has made.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Issue
  • Iran
  • North American Free Trade Agreement

• It's dead - for the time being. This issue goes in cycles.

  

  Alan Young
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Issue

• There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Lies

• I'm just always looking for something that I've never done, or something that feels unique and special. A lot of it is gut and what you emotionally connect with, and that can be a variety of different things.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Different
  • Done
  • Things

• Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

  

  Art Blakey
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Experience
  • True
  • Issue

• What we're trying to do is set the bar a little bit higher. This has been a very contentious, very emotional (issue).

  

  Charles Edwards
  • Trying
  • Emotional
  • Issue

• I've read until my eyes were bleeding. I don't know what more could be said. This is not a black-and-white issue.

  

  Charles Edwards
  • Black
  • Eyes
  • Issue

• Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

  

  James Cook
  • Solution
  • Issue
  • Liberals

• Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex with everyone. I don't know where that was coming from, but there was such a need to connect physically - obviously, for me to connect physically to myself. There were times, like I say in the book, where you lay on top of me, when you push me down, when you're inside me.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Book
  • Sex
  • Need

• I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Life
  • Never
  • Personal

• Every movie that I've done, they don't stand independently from one another because a little bit of me is in every single one of those, and it's part of my own personal growth.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Single

• The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.

  

  Alan Brazil
  • Coming
  • Thin
  • Tackles

• The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.

  

  George Takei
  • Issue
  • Connect
  • Humanize