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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Television Producer
Television Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Norman Milton Lear
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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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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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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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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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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 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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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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Life is about having a good time.
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We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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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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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 wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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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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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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