George Takei Quotes
I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift that's been given to me - access to the media - as positively as I can.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.
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Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.
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Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.
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I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift that's been given to me - access to the media - as positively as I can.
