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I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Television Producer
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New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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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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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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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When something is over, it is over.
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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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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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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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Life is about having a good time.
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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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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I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.
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I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
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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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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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