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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
Norman Lear
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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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Life is about having a good time.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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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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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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When something is over, it is over.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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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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I was the laziest white kid my dad 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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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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