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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.
Norman Lear
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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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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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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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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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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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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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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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