Norman Lear Quotes

• Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

  Norman Lear

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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

  Tags in American, Controversial

• 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 whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.

  Norman Lear

  Tags in Episode, Good Times

• 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

  Tags in Tiny

• 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 international corporation that wants these ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Tags in Remove, Viacom

• 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

  Tags in Laziest, Screamed

• Even when they don’t know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

  Norman Lear

  Tags in Shows, Nixon

• 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.

  Norman Lear

  Tags in Buying, Madison

Norman Lear (28)

Birth:	27th July, 1922
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Television Producer

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