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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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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Norman Milton Lear
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.
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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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We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.
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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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'All in the Family' took ten weeks to take off in 1971, and we were lucky to start in January, because if it had started in the regular fall season of 1970, I don't know if we would have lasted. The ratings didn't take off until the end of that fall season, when the other two networks ran out of fresh shows.
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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When something is over, it is over.
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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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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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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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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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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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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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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 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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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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