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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.
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 never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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Life is about having a good time.
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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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I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
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