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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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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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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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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.
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I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, Does television lead, or does it follow? You know, does it lead the conversation, or culture, or does it follow what's going on? And I think it does both.
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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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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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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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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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