George Takei Quotes

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• As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third…
• The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political…
• It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
• Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
• There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.
• People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to…
• Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
• Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If…
• Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
• We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of…
• A man who layeth with another man must be stoned.
• You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
• The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
• Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
• And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its…
• I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to…
• I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
• I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!
• I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
• My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.

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