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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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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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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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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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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
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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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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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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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'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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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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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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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of course they know. But they're comfortably ensconced in their country clubs and churches, and very far removed from the decisions that are made on their behalf.
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