I intend to live life, not just exist.

George Takei Quotes

American - Actor Born: April 20, 1937

I intend to live life, not just exist. - George Takei

I intend to live life, not just exist. George Takei

Exist, Intend, Just

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

Star, Trek, Lifelong

We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect. George Takei

Here, United States

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. George Takei

My Life, Behind, More People

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps. George Takei

Think, Been, I Think

I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean. George Takei

Father, Away, Some

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. George Takei

City, Magic, Bus

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms. George Takei

Diversity, Trek, Starship

My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans. George Takei

Doing, Been, Engaged

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. George Takei

Constitution, Innocent

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We have to remember that Putin was a member of the KGB. He has already demonstrated that kind of macho, dictatorial attitude. Russia has breached their pledge to uphold the Olympic charter. This is a great opportunity for the IOC to say we cannot, given the situation that exists currently, allow the Olympics to take place in Russia. George Takei

Allow, Olympic, We Cannot

When I was going to gay bars in my 20s and 30s, the older guys there explained to me that the police would occasionally raid these places and march the clients out, load them onto paddy wagons, drive them down to the station, photograph them, fingerprint them and put their names on a list. They were doing nothing wrong, and it was criminalized. George Takei

Doing, Clients, Explained

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. George Takei

Normal, Became, I Remember

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. George Takei

Gift, Woke, Part

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. George Takei

Old, Harbor, Japan

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. George Takei

Grandmother, Through, Which

Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process. George Takei

Idea, Pursuit, Every Man

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

Young, Very, Camps

I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood. George Takei

Love, Career, Given

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. George Takei

Trump, Mosque, Donald

What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That's how we keep on growing. George Takei

Reliability, Greet, Giggle

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. George Takei

Country, Young, Harbor

It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player. George Takei

Difficult, Working, Someone

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. George Takei

Think, Will, I Think

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. George Takei

My Life, Been, Fact

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor! George Takei

Marathon, Like, Several

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