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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Thought Rational Dictatorship American
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The message sent is not always the message received
Message Sent Received
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Intellectual Sevility Power Betray
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Popular Propaganda Pressure Helpless
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Education Self-fulfilment Environment Explore
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Increase Drug Crime Immigrants
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Resistance Detest Reality Hegemony
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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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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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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
Time Hunk Block Need
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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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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 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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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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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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It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is.

Know Our How Important
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We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
Believe Learn
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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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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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The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

Problem Symptom Deeper Never
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I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
I Me
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Parent Linger Past
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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.

Accomplished Began Beginning Each
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It is okay for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
Me Okay Feel Angry
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I am me and I am okay.
I Am Okay
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Defeat Defeated Enter Even
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Done How Map Somewhere
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If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

Go Heat Stand Summer
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