Gene Roddenberry Quotes - Page 2

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• Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

  Gene Roddenberry

  Art, People, Asking

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• For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, People, Brain

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• Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Atheist, Degrees, False Prophets

  "In His Name". Book by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39, 2010.

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• Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet's relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Believe, Moving, Reality

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• A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Reality, Men, Choices

  "Fictional character: Dr. Phillip Boyce". "The Cage" - Star Trek first pilot, 1988.

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• They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.

  Gene Roddenberry

  God, World, Logic

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• They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Junk, Television, Tvs

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• We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Dream, Mankind, Attainment

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• I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Thinking, Looks, Neutrons

  "Teaching Toward the 24th Century: Star Trek as Social Curriculum". Book by Karen Anijar, p. 38, 2004.

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• We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Stress, Greed

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• 'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Drama, Adventure

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• I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that.

  Gene Roddenberry

  World, Clear, Wanted

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• Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Clever, Hard Work, Pyramids

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• For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

  Gene Roddenberry

  People, Brain, Chaplains

  "In His Name". Book by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39, 2010.

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• You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is the only place that [life] happens. It's like turning your back on the whole idea of growth and evolution.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Dust, Ideas, Growth

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• PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

  Gene Roddenberry

  Bridges, Names, Mind

  Gene Roddenberry (2000). “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Pain, Winning, Games

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• In a better world, I can do anything. I'll be there in a better world. In a better world, they will not laugh at me or look down their nose at me.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Laughing, Looks, Noses

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• Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor. Picard

  Gene Roddenberry

  Age, Matter, Cry

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• In the fifth season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] viewers will see more of shipboard life [including] gay crew members in day-to-day circumstances.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Gay, Generations

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• When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Airplane, Feelings, Lovely

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• If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Events, Looks, Film

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• I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Character, Wish, Television

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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