George Takei Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 20, 1937

Topics

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When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

Joan Halifax

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You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

Travis Scott

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In England we are sort of very awkward.

Tom Felton

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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Michelangelo

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And looking at the landslides, you saw how Gore beat Bush so substantially in California.

Mike Curb

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You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

Josh Hartnett

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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Douglas Coupland

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The battle is long, but that's football, sport.

Claudio Ranieri

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All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Bobby Fischer

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I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

Bong Joon-ho

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

Syd Barrett

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