Norman Lear Quotes

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• The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say…
• We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than…
• Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You…
• We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the…
• I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know -…
• Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't…
• Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.
• At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant…
• 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…
• Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
• We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
• Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.
• I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way.…
• When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

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