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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. "
George Takei
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Growing
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" People want to start their day off with a smile or, better yet, a guffaw. "
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" I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America. "
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" We have to remember that Putin was a member of the KGB. He has already demonstrated that kind of macho, dictatorial attitude. Russia has breached their pledge to uphold the Olympic charter. This is a great opportunity for the IOC to say we cannot, given the situation that exists currently, allow the Olympics to take place in Russia. "
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" They didn't incarcerate the Japanese-Americans in Hawaii. That's the place that was bombed. But the Japanese-American population was about 45 percent of the island of Hawaii. And if they extracted those Japanese-Americans, the economy would have collapsed. But on the mainland, we were thinly spread out up and down the West Coast. "
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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. "
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" We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves. "
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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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You
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" The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people. "
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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. "
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" To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time. "
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Theater
" I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it. "
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" Dramatic shows are the ones that I am attracted to. "
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" 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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" I've known Lisa Lampanelli for quite some time. We did the Shatner roast together. Lisa didn't know Shatner, but she's a popular roaster, so she was invited to do it, and she is fantastic. Actually, despite her public image, she's a very sweet lady and very sensitive. She cries very easily. Most people don't know that. "
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" I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year. "
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" Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here. "
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" The Russians are taunting the IOC with the homophobic laws that they pass. "
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" When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.' "
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" I'm most comfortable with my computer. Yes, I have an iPhone, but I've reached that point now where to read e-mails on my phone, I need my reading glasses. I'm most comfortable with the big-screen computer. "
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" STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive. "
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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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" 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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" There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. "
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" I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career. "
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