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Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

Norman Lear

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Norman Milton Lear
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I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.
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Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
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I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.
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I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors - John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.
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I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.
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Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
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We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of course they know. But they're comfortably ensconced in their country clubs and churches, and very far removed from the decisions that are made on their behalf.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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