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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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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get 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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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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Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.
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In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of course they know. But they're comfortably ensconced in their country clubs and churches, and very far removed from the decisions that are made on their behalf.
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When something is over, it is over.
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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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.
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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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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
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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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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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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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