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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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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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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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