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George Takei
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George Takei
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 20
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The word today is detained, not interred. People are being detained with no due process. They don't know what the charges are, why they're being detained. Simply because they have an Arab name or some association, but there are no charges.
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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
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We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.
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We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
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Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.
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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 humanity.
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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 judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.
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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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I had a really unusual, remarkably unusual father because he, in our family, was the one that suffered the most. He was the one that explained American democracy to me. He said, ‘Our democracy is a people’s democracy and it can be as great as people can be, and it can be great… but we are also fallible human beings.’
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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'
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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 we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call “the lowest common denominator of butthurt.
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