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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.

Norman Lear

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Norman Milton Lear
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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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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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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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When something is over, it is over.
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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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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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Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
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Life is about having a good time.
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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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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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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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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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
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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 wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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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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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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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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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