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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

Norman Lear

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
Businessperson
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
Television Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Norman Milton Lear
Laziest
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White
Kids
Ever

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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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When something is over, it is over.
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Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
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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 wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
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