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George Takei Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Childhood Think America Been

I kick off every monthly team meeting with 'core value stories' - team members stand up and recognize how another team member exemplified a core value.

Value Team Stand Up Stand Meeting

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.

Jean-Luc Godard

Fly Long Want Visa Apply

From 12-year-old girls to 70-year-old matriarchs, I know hundreds of women who have some sort of body image issue. This is sad and seriously worrying, but it's true, and it's why I feel some kind of social responsibility to do what I can to show a variety of body types in fashion magazines.

Amanda de Cadenet

Women Sad Responsibility Fashion

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.

Light People Game Burn Lighting Who

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

Failure Time President Like Troubles

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

People Start You Routine Finish

I didn't want Ulta to be thought of as the retailer for discounts. I wanted Ulta to be known as a beauty retailer.

Beauty Thought Want Wanted Known

I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal.

Martina Navratilova

Religion Me Grow You Hide Gay

If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.'

Music Money Pink Picture You Go

A pen is different from the pad, the key, moving your fingers across a screen. I like both. I like to work on sketchbooks, big old white sketch paper. I like how that feels, and I like to put different media on it. Then there's the phone, smartphone, iPad: It's the new page, and it's not the same page anymore.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Work Moving Key Media Pen Phone

If you're just starting out in the workforce, the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get started in your workplace retirement plan. Contribute enough to grab any matching dollars your employer is offering (a.k.a. the last free money on earth).

Best Money Yourself Free Retirement

I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'

Book Go Without Anywhere Wake James

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