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20 quotes by George Takei

George Takei Takei at the 2013 Florida SuperCon. Born Hosato Takei (1937-04-20) April 20, 1937 (age 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Education Los Angeles High School Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles Occupation Actor, author, and voice artist Years active 1958–present Television Star Trek Political party Democratic Religion Buddhism (Zenshu/Jōdo Shinshū) Spouse(s) Brad Takei (né Brad Altman) (m. 2008)...
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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... →

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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... →

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

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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... →

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My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.

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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

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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... →

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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... →

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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.

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

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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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Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

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