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.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • You
  • Try
  • Create

• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
  • motivation
  • Work Hard

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• 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.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• 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.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Song

• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Idea
  • Pleasure
  • Oneself

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• 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!

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Boy

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Me
  • Mean

• I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Got
  • Nephews
  • Nieces

• The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Experience
  • Color

• 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.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • Long
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Why
  • Doing
  • Tradition

• In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Relationship
  • Sex
  • Old

• 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?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Distance

• What between tipping the man who had brought us home, and paying for the broken sculls, and for having been out four hours and a half, it cost us a pretty considerable number of weeks’ pocket-money, that sail. But we learned experience, and they say that is always cheap at any price.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Money
  • Home
  • Experience

• It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

  

  George H. W. Bush
  • Good
  • Question

• Why is it that people don't know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they think there are some magic words that will make everything all right again, only they don't know what the words are.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • People
  • Know
  • Magic Words

• In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Live
  • Paris

• When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Said
  • Humble

• 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.

  

  George Takei
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Crime