Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.
STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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.
Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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.
I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
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.
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.
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.
Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? 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.
Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.
I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
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.
A man who layeth with another man must be stoned.
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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.
If you don’t know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.
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.
Turkey Bacon. It's like saying "shoot" instead of "shit." It just doesn't quite carry the moment.
Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
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.
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
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.
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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.
I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!
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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