George Takei Quotes
I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
Quotes to Explore
-
The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
-
I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
-
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
-
Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
-
I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
-
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
-
It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
-
When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
-
Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
-
I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.
-
I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
-
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
-
My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
-
'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.
-
I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
-
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do.
-
My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
-
It was a given at UCSB that if there was a role that called for a person of color, it was going to be handed to me. There were certain times when maybe I didn't try as hard. Going to Yale was a way more diverse experience.
-
I was never interested in playing him with a big red S on his chest. I’m much more attracted to the underbelly stuff. Gibbs is a loner, with emotional scars a mile deep that run in a million different directions. At work, he’s a leader. But who is he if you take away his job? I play him, and even I don’t know the answer to that.
-
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
-
I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
