George Takei quote: "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."

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI

I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI

I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI

It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ...
GEORGE TAKEI

When I was a teenager, the biggest heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner Br...
GEORGE TAKEI

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

On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of...
GEORGE TAKEI

I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the w...
GEORGE TAKEI

When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their dr...
GEORGE TAKEI

When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the pr...
GEORGE TAKEI

I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living r...
GEORGE TAKEI

As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
GEORGE TAKEI

Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai S...
GEORGE TAKEI

You know what the lowest rated episode we ever had was? Where Captain Kirk kissed Uhuru - a white ma...
GEORGE TAKEI

It was an egregious violation of the American Constitution. We were innocent American citizens, and ...
GEORGE TAKEI

I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When...
GEORGE TAKEI

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong f...
GEORGE TAKEI

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries ab...
GEORGE TAKEI

When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned...
GEORGE TAKEI

To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.
GEORGE TAKEI

'Star Trek' is science fiction. 'Star Wars' is science fantasy. Based on the episode...
GEORGE TAKEI

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-Am...
GEORGE TAKEI

When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silen...
GEORGE TAKEI

Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few se...
GEORGE TAKEI

In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's ...
GEORGE TAKEI

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.
GEORGE TAKEI

'Star Trek' fans totally accepted my sexual orientation. There are a great number of LGBT pe...
GEORGE TAKEI

Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the pris...
GEORGE TAKEI

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of m...
GEORGE TAKEI

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my li...
GEORGE TAKEI

What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a gigg...
GEORGE TAKEI

We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment ca...
GEORGE TAKEI

It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.
GEORGE TAKEI

We have to remember that Putin was a member of the KGB. He has already demonstrated that kind of mac...
GEORGE TAKEI

When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then i...
GEORGE TAKEI

They didn't incarcerate the Japanese-Americans in Hawaii. That's the place that was bombed. ...
GEORGE TAKEI

I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world,...
GEORGE TAKEI

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

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, wh...
GEORGE TAKEI

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embr...
GEORGE TAKEI

I had convinced my father to let me pursue this career, and I passionately wanted it. And here was t...
GEORGE TAKEI

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

I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift th...
GEORGE TAKEI

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration c...
GEORGE TAKEI

Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man i...
GEORGE TAKEI

The large popular normality is that rigid, constrained normality, ... But there's another natural no...
GEORGE TAKEI

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

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American...
GEORGE TAKEI

I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.
GEORGE TAKEI

Those Tea Party people are crazy. I mean, they're lunatics. They close down the government, thro...
GEORGE TAKEI

They didn't want 'those people' coming into Hancock Park, low-income people. The Hancock Park people...
GEORGE TAKEI

All that was required for it to become law was the autograph of one actor.
GEORGE TAKEI

Vierzig Jahre später erkennen wir, dass diese Utensilien auf unserem Schreibtisch daheim und bei de...
GEORGE TAKEI

We are part of the fabric of America, from U.S. senators to your schoolteacher to your local banker.
GEORGE TAKEI

ISIS itself regularly fuels hatred of gay people and violence towards them. It broadcasts gruesome e...
GEORGE TAKEI

Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature mot...
GEORGE TAKEI

I've been enormously lucky [in my career] ... and certainly the capper on the string of luck was me...
GEORGE TAKEI

You know, it's not really coming out, ... It's more like a long, long walk through what began as a n...
GEORGE TAKEI

Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyp...
GEORGE TAKEI

I've known Lisa Lampanelli for quite some time. We did the Shatner roast together. Lisa didn'...
GEORGE TAKEI

I'm especially concerned about the future of this country, because I'm concerned about the g...
GEORGE TAKEI

It's safe to assume none of us actually wants to see ISIS-inspired terrorists armed with semi-au...
GEORGE TAKEI

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans th...
GEORGE TAKEI

When I was going to gay bars in my 20s and 30s, the older guys there explained to me that the police...
GEORGE TAKEI

My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the polit...
GEORGE TAKEI

I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am p...
GEORGE TAKEI

The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Th...
GEORGE TAKEI

They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the a...
GEORGE TAKEI

Would-be terrorists cannot so much as board a plane without a thorough screening, yet we give them n...
GEORGE TAKEI

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japane...
GEORGE TAKEI

In the United States, we have a large, broad middle that are decent, fair-minded people who are too ...
GEORGE TAKEI

When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterpr...
GEORGE TAKEI

Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship E...
GEORGE TAKEI

I'm particularly impressed by the creation of the character of Spock, which really was Leonard N...
GEORGE TAKEI

I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't reall...
GEORGE TAKEI

It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in ve...
GEORGE TAKEI

We were taken to Arkansas in trains like this.
GEORGE TAKEI

That's right. These are the suitcases that immigrants brought with them, ... Star Trek.
GEORGE TAKEI

Vierzig Jahre später erkennen wir, dass diese Utensilien auf unserem Schreibtisch daheim und bei de...
GEORGE TAKEI

We are going to make a stronger, better, truer democracy....We will boldly go where America has neve...
GEORGE TAKEI

I didn't want to talk about being in an internment camp, ... They would ask me, where was I? I would...
GEORGE TAKEI

The media is starting to understand that people will “buy” what they want to hear. That explains...
GEORGE TAKEI

cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dr...
GEORGE TAKEI

The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues...
GEORGE TAKEI

The U.S. Treasury market will outperform their European counterparts. The yield spread is making Tre...
AKIRA TAKEI

The long end of the curve is very cheap. We are maintaining our long duration position in Treasuries...
AKIRA TAKEI

Durable goods orders tend to be a more prominent leading indicator. I expect a weaker number, so I a...
AKIRA TAKEI

Durable goods order tends to be a more prominent leading indicator. I expect a weaker number, so I a...
AKIRA TAKEI

Home prices are moderating, inventories are rising and affordability is heading south. The market wi...
AKIRA TAKEI

The housing sector is still weakening and it is a cause of concern for investors. I am keeping my lo...
AKIRA TAKEI

One more rate increase may be enough for the U.S. economy.
AKIRA TAKEI

We are seeing some bottom-fishing going on as some investors take advantage of yields at these level...
AKIRA TAKEI

The weakness in the housing market is going to prevail, and that is a harbinger of things to come fo...
AKIRA TAKEI

We are still keeping our bullish view on Treasuries. We expect to see Treasury yields peak soon.
AKIRA TAKEI

These are attractive levels to get back into the market, and we are anticipating a good performance ...
AKIRA TAKEI

I'm planning to accumulate more Treasuries. Higher oil prices are going to depress consumption. It's...
AKIRA TAKEI

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE

Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS

The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE

I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY

Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL

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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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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