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To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Degree Office Pressure Public
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Argument Violence
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Human Language Phenomenon Analogue
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Honored Bible Prophets Jailed
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How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

People Perceive Question Interest
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Governments don't control people like they used to.
Governments Control People
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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.

Future Vision Show 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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'Work while it is day...for the night comes when no man can work' I find myself thinking about how profoundly deep this statement is

Work Day Night Thinking
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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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How did Nigeria get to the point where our leaders don’t really care? For most of them, it's only about money.

Nigeria Leaders Money Care
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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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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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Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor

Parent Teach School
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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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Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

Communication Human Largest Factor
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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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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

Talked Live Compulsion Have
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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 know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what contex.

People Change Bones Cell
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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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Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

Adolescents Monster People Adult
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You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Played Development Result
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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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The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
Life Vulnerability Defense Face
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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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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
Problem Human being Bigest
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