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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Television Producer
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New Haven
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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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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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When something is over, it is over.
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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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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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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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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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors - John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.
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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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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.
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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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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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