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" It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is. "
George Takei
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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'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. "
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" To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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! "
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" Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide. "
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" Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention. "
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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! "
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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. "
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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. "
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Motion
" I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't really believe in. 'Traditional marriage' is where two people love each other, commit to each other, care for each other over the years. It is a meaningful ceremony, and his interpretation of that is not recognizing what real marriage is. "
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" It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player. "
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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. "
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" I'm particularly impressed by the creation of the character of Spock, which really was Leonard Nimoy's singular creation. He used everything he had. "
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" In the United States, we have a large, broad middle that are decent, fair-minded people who are too busy to really think about issues other than their next paycheck. Those are the people that we want to get to in order to change the social climate. And Howard Stern has that audience. So I said, 'Let's boldly go where I've never been before.' "
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