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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.
Norman Lear
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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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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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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.
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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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When something is over, it is over.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.
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