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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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Norman Milton Lear
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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 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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You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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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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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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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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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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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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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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