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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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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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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.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.
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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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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 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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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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