Norman Lear Quotes

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• 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 collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

  Norman Lear

  Life, Happiness, Gratitude

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• I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You.' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.

  Norman Lear

  Goal, Wish, World

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

  Norman Lear

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

  Norman Lear

  Self, People, May

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• When something is over, it is over.

  Norman Lear

  Over It

  "Not My Job: How Much Does Producer Norman Lear Know About Learjets?". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 2, 2016.

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• Life is about having a good time.

  Norman Lear

  Good Times, Life Is, Having A Good Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Success is how you collect your minutes.

  Norman Lear

  Success, Minutes

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• I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

  Norman Lear

  Morning, Get Up

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Agreement, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

  Norman Lear

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Doe, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Lakes, Rocks, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Feelings, Feeling Great

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

  Norman Lear

  Issues, People, Care

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

  Norman Lear

  Change, Making A Difference, Desire

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

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Citizens, Consumers

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• We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.

  Norman Lear

  Together, Television, Dean

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Power is the goal of religion in general.

  Norman Lear

  Goal

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

  Norman Lear

  Believe, Would Be, Reason

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Dad, Kids, Race

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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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.

  Norman Lear

  Strong, Careers, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• 'All in the Family' took ten weeks to take off in 1971, and we were lucky to start in January, because if it had started in the regular fall season of 1970, I don't know if we would have lasted. The ratings didn't take off until the end of that fall season, when the other two networks ran out of fresh shows.

  Norman Lear

  Fall, Two, Lucky

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

  Norman Lear

  Mets, Chaplin, Wanted

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

  Norman Lear

  Wise, Heart, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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