George Takei Quotes
The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.
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I've got loads of nieces and nephews.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.
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In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
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The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and 'it depends' is almost always the right answer in any big question.
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I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
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Television is such an evolving medium.
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The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
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I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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If your neighbor is doing something wrong, let's call it. Let's say this person is doing wrong, and let's notify our law enforcement so we can actually vet that individual.
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The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It's unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt.
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The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.
