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'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces div...

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My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefo...

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

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

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

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I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compa...

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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...

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When Brad and I got married in 2008, it got a lot of attention. And all the attention was over the f...

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Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They jus...

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

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

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

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

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I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't really believ...

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People want to start their day off with a smile or, better yet, a guffaw.

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

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

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At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is...

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

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

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

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

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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyped, one-...

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

I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two...

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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval...

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George Takei

Actor

Born: 1937-04-20

Died: N/A

George Hosato Takei (born April 20, 1937) is an American actor of Japanese decent. He is best known for playing the role of Mr. Sulu in the television series Star Trek (1966–1969) and the films which followed.More