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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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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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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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 was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.
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I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'.
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