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Norman Lear Quotes & Sayings

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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. — Norman Lear

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care. — Norman Lear

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings. — Norman Lear

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 always the case. — Norman Lear

women could never be in the space program, since in zero G a woman's breasts would bounce and keep the men from concentrating. — Julie Phillips

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play. — Norman Lear

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front. — Bryan Adams

He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man. — Jim Croce

I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house ... my house was more akin to Norman Lear. — Michael P. Naughton

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. — Norman Lear

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan. — Norman Lear

I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you. — Dave Finkel

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. — Norman Lear

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

Guess now who holds thee?" - "Death," I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, - "Not Death, but Love." - ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING — Wayne W. Dyer

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

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins. — Norman Lear

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had. — Richard Masur

Jesus will brush aside your inabilities. — Bill Vaughan

When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did. — Ryan Murphy

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end. — Norman Lear

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

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. — Thomas Moore

Heroes come along when you need them. — Ronald Steel

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs. — Norman Lear

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

When something is over, it is over ... — Norman Lear

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary. — Norman Lear

Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.' — Donald Wildmon

When I want to entertain entertainers, I call Jason Randal! — Norman Lear

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. — Norman Lear

In this nation, leadership is dollars. — Norman Lear