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" I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King. "

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" I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater. And I've been able to wed the two passions. "

" Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season. "

" It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man. "

" I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career. "

" I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year. "

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

" Those Tea Party people are crazy. I mean, they're lunatics. They close down the government, throw people out of their jobs - hundreds of thousands of people - and they say that they're doing it ultimately in the interest of creating jobs. "

" It has a Nazi echo, doesn't it? The Jews had to wear that Star of David, and Donald Trump is saying all Syrians have to carry an ID card and they can, without warrant, go into any Syrian's home or a mosque. "

" Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity. "

" I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living room floor with my ears affixed to the radio. I loved shows like 'The Phantom,' 'Cisco Kid,' and even 'Happy Theater' when I was younger. "

" 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. "

" People want to start their day off with a smile or, better yet, a guffaw. "

" The wonderful thing about acting is they're always going to need old codgers! "

" 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! "

" Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration. "

" One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends. "

" It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player. "

" We are living in a science fiction world. "

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" I'm optimistic, and I have a lot of goals. And I obey the laws of nature: I eat, exercise, and rest properly. But mostly it's about keeping the mind engaged. My grandmother lived to 104, and she had all of her faculties. I'm physically active and devout - just not as Buddhistic as she was. "

" ISIS itself regularly fuels hatred of gay people and violence towards them. It broadcasts gruesome executions of homosexuals thrown blindfolded from rooftops. "

" Dramatic shows are the ones that I am attracted to. "

" 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. "

" Back in the day, coming out was something very personal. You began by acknowledging the truth, first to yourself, then to close family and friends. Those of us more in the public spotlight, though, also had to 'come out' to the press. "

" 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. "

" I think being optimistic is ensuring your success. If you start out saying 'I've got this problem,' or 'I'm angry at that,' you will not succeed. "

" The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people. "

" 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. "

" It was an egregious violation of the American Constitution. We were innocent American citizens, and we were imprisoned simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. It shows us just how fragile our Constitution is. "

" My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories. "

" 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. "