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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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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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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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
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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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Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it's a taxable event. It's like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.
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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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If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I
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A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God
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While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
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For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.
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Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around.
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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.
