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I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living room floor with my ears affixed to the radio. I loved shows like 'The Phantom,' 'Cisco Kid,' and even 'Happy Theater' when I was younger.

~George Takei

Topics: Age Boyhood Ears Entertainment Even Floor Form Grew Happy Kid Like Living Living Room Loved Lying Main Phantom Radio Room Shows Theater Up Younger

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Radio dramas have disappeared. What we do have now is books on tape, which I find wonderful. I've done some of those. Otherwise, radio acting is now gone.

~George Takei

Topics: Acting Books Disappeared Done Dramas Find Gone Now Otherwise Radio Some Tape Those Which Wonderful

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I'm most comfortable with my computer. Yes, I have an iPhone, but I've reached that point now where to read e-mails on my phone, I need my reading glasses. I'm most comfortable with the big-screen computer.

~George Takei

Topics: Comfortable Computer Glasses Iphone Most Need Now Phone Point Reached Read Reading Where Yes E-Mails

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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

Topics: Angry Being Ensuring Got Optimistic Out Problem Saying Start Succeed Success Think Will You Your I Think

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

~George Takei

Topics: America Been Camps Childhood Concentration Incarceration Life Shaped Think Whole I Think

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Those Tea Party people are crazy. I mean, they're lunatics. They close down the government, throw people out of their jobs - hundreds of thousands of people - and they say that they're doing it ultimately in the interest of creating jobs.

~George Takei

Topics: Close Crazy Creating Doing Down Government Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Interest Jobs Lunatics Mean Out Party People Say Tea Tea Party They Say Those Thousands Thousands Of People Throw Ultimately

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I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater. And I've been able to wed the two passions.

~George Takei

Topics: Able Awareness Been Citizens Internment Life My Life Other Passion Passions Raise Theater Two Wed

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I've known Lisa Lampanelli for quite some time. We did the Shatner roast together. Lisa didn't know Shatner, but she's a popular roaster, so she was invited to do it, and she is fantastic. Actually, despite her public image, she's a very sweet lady and very sensitive. She cries very easily. Most people don't know that.

~George Takei

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: April 20th, 1937

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