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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.

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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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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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 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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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
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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 wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
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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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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.
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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
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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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I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.
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I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
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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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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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