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I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.

Love People Engaged Society
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A girl may never get married if she waits for the PERFECT MAN.

Girl Never Married Wait
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I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

England Four Least Once
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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

Time Grew Camps Know
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Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

Towers Normal Part Camp
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But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Being Camp First Out
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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

Active Blessed Career Civic
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
Time Hunk Block Need
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

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I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

Ancestors Definitely Great Like
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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 share with more people.

Share Part Life People
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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 ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Keep Order Failed Ideals
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This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

Step Exploit System People
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Season Series Close Movies
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I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Extent About Convention Very
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Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.

Motion String Feature Office
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Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

Time War Difficult Hot
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I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood.

Acting Blessed Career Good
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It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.

Donald Hear Talking Kills
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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.

Trial Law Crime Process
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When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that.

Chilled Terrorists Banned Heard
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I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.

Planet Over Reality Latin
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I do think that Japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.

Nations Example Serve Equality
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Always Attempting Business Disprove
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The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.

Best Connect Heart Issue
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It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in very tiny letters, 'aka George Takei.' I don't protest the inevitable.

Protest Large Lies Very
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On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of the city. It's a wonderful way to get to know the city.

Open Absorb Magic City
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Decide First FirstStep Getting
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I'm an actor. I love acting and being able to use my love, my passion, to also contribute to making this a better society, a better democracy, and a better country.

Country Better Society Passion
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Would-be terrorists cannot so much as board a plane without a thorough screening, yet we give them nearly unfettered access to very dangerous weapons.

Weapons Access Nearly Plane
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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Come Happens Itself Make
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Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.

Stop Least Desire Strong
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In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

Truly Equal Laws Fired
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Because Begin Fail Get
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It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is.

Know Our How Important
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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.

Access Activist Been Gift
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I'm especially concerned about the future of this country, because I'm concerned about the gay people of the future. We need to ensure their good life by registering to vote.

Life People Future About
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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Dirty Face Fall Flat
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In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.

Come Course Decision Life
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It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great American stage of Broadway. In fact, I've dedicated much of the latter half of my life to ensuring the story of the internment is known.

Known Story Life Fact
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We are living in a science fiction world.
Fiction Living Science World
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I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

He Like Lists Making
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They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!

Audience Best Better Critics
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What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That's how we keep on growing.

Being Every Fans Giggle
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People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns.

Life Full People Turns
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People want to start their day off with a smile or, better yet, a guffaw.
Better Day Off People
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Amazing Notions Ordinary OrdinaryPeople
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I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

Comedy Funny Good Humor
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

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To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.

Kind Muslims Terrorists Worst
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