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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.
Norman Lear
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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Television Producer
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New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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