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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.

Norman Lear

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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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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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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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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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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The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'
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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 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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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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I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
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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.
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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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In this nation, leadership is dollars.
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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 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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Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
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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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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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The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.
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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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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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