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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. "
George Takei
Will
Democracy
People
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" 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. "
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" Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood. "
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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. "
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" I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean. "
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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. "
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Justice
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" I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps. "
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" 'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms. "
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" I intend to live life, not just exist. "
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Live Life
" I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world, seeking new opportunities. My mother was born in Sacramento, California. My father was a San Franciscan. They met and married in Los Angeles, and I was born there. "
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Mother
Father
America
" We are living in a science fiction world. "
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Science
World
" I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin. "
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Love
Marriage
" When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the press for the first time. What happened after that blew me away. I started getting more offers. My career blossomed. "
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First Time
Me
Career
" 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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Think
" I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist. "
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Make
Love
" I'm George Takei, and I'm straight... up asking you to vote. "
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Asking
You
Vote
" One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends. "
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Friends
Colleagues
Work
" 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. "
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Good
Vote
People
" Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past. "
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Discrimination
Long
Past
" When I was going to gay bars in my 20s and 30s, the older guys there explained to me that the police would occasionally raid these places and march the clients out, load them onto paddy wagons, drive them down to the station, photograph them, fingerprint them and put their names on a list. They were doing nothing wrong, and it was criminalized. "
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Police
Me
Gay
" To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind. "
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Terrorists
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" When I was a teenager, the biggest heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner Bros. until he was exposed as gay, and his career faded. That was an object lesson. I knew I must protect my sexual orientation. "
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He
Gay
Lesson
" 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. "
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Team
Us
Strength
" Radio dramas have disappeared. What we do have now is books on tape, which I find wonderful. I've done some of those. Otherwise, radio acting is now gone. "
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Done
Radio
Acting
" 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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Office
Box
Motion
" 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. "
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Eyes
Magic
Know
" 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. "
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Think
Equality
Example
" 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. "
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Here
Inevitable
Letters
" 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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Life
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" I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it. "
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