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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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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Norman Milton Lear
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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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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 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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