Top 100 Takei Quotes
#1. I'm George Takei, and I'm straight ... up asking you to vote.
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#2. 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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#3. People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns.
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#4. 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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#5. When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, 'I have to speak out.'
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is.
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#9. There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears.
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#10. I have a sister who is technophobic; she doesn't even use a computer.
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#11. 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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#12. Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.
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#13. I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood.
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#14. I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
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#15. A man who layeth with another man must be stoned.
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#16. Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass.
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#17. Our democracy is a people's democracy, and it can be as great as people can be, but it is also as fallible as people are.
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#18. It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.
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#19. Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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#20. Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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#21. It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player.
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#22. At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.
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#26. 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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#27. I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.
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#28. We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.
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#29. If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led. Like it or not, this is our culture, and we should embrace and celebrate it, even while we strive to refine and shape it.
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#30. I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.
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#31. 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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#32. Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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#33. I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
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#34. I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compatible with.
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#35. Our differences in beliefs
do not truly separate us,
or elevate us over others.
Rather,
they highlight the rich tapestry
that is humanity.
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#36. I don't consider it jumping ship. The 'Star Trek' philosophy is to embrace the diversity of the universe, and 'Star Wars' is part of that diversity. I also think 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' are related beyond both having the word 'Star.'
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#37. Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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#38. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
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#42. Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.
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#43. My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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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#48. I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
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#49. People forget that stereotypes aren't bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.
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#50. 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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#51. I've sometimes imagined that if sin had a flavor, it might very well be bacon. It even tastes smoky, as if it emerged piping hot out of the fiery pans of hell
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#52. By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#56. Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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#57. 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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#58. '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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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.
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#62. Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
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#66. If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
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#67. There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.
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#68. Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy ... Vote!
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#69. 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.
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#70. 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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#71. It's safe to assume none of us actually wants to see ISIS-inspired terrorists armed with semi-automatic rifles, able to attack at will within our own borders.
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#72. 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.
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#73. When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.
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#74. If you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.
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#75. Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.
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#76. As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.
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#77. I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the world was plunged into a world war. America suddenly was swept up by hysteria.
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#78. 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.
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#79. I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
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#80. 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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#81. You know what the lowest rated episode we ever had was? Where Captain Kirk kissed Uhuru - a white man kissing an African-American woman. All the stations in the American South - in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana - refused to air it. And so our ratings plummeted.
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#82. As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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#83. 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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#84. More importantly, the tweet was funny. Come on, it's funny.
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#85. 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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#86. To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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#87. To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.
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#88. We will face a day, not long from now, when all of our information comes from digital sources, meaning that rumors and untruths can spread even more quickly than before.
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#89. I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!
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#90. 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.
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#91. I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.
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#92. Superior strength is a sword that manifests one's will.
Hiroyuki Takei
#93. Dramatic shows are the ones that I am attracted to.
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#94. 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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#95. Cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.
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#96. The Russians are taunting the IOC with the homophobic laws that they pass.
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#97. 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.
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#98. If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone's feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call the lowest common denominator of butthurt.
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#99. 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.
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#100. You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.
Hiroyuki Takei
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