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"But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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"Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."
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"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after."
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"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."
Family
"But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful."
Being
"I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career."
Career
"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
"I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year."
England
"My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories."
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"I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King."
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"I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!"
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"Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here."
Time
"I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it."
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