What we have is this endless cycle, the repetition of this kind of horror, injustice being inflicted on minority people, and we see it again today on our southern borders, but we've reached a new, grotesque low. We were together with our parents. Our families were intact. What we see today now is this incredible inhumanity of children being torn away from their parents.

George Takei

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I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

George Takei

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Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.

George Takei

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To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.

George Takei

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The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

George Takei

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For me, country music symbolized freedom and the joys of life... roaming the country, experiencing the joys as well as the heartbreaks. It was a transporting kind of song, and I'd just kind of sing along with them.

George Takei

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As an Asian American, I'm aware of how stereotypes can be very destructive. We've been defined by the drag queens. And yes, they exist. But we've been defined as irresponsible, flamboyant, loud, and garish. I think what we need to do - and what we haven't done as aggressively as we should have - is to depict the vast diversity of the GLBT community.

George Takei

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We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

George Takei

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Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.

George Takei

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

George Takei

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I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

George Takei

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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

George Takei

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What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad.

George Takei

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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

George Takei

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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

George Takei

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The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to find that emotional pitch. And when you do something in drama and you hear that sob from the audience it's so fulfilling. But as a comic actor, when the laugh is supposed to come and you punch in that line and nothing happens it is dreadful. It's horrific and you feel like dying right there.

George Takei

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

George Takei

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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

George Takei

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As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

George Takei

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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.

George Takei

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The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.

George Takei

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