Category - Norman Lear

Discover the thoughtful Quotes of Norman Lear, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history. Motivational Quotes of Norman Lear
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Norman Lear

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 ratings are good and you’re reasonable – I don’t think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right.

– Norman Lear

Norman Lear

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. They wanted to interrupt three times.

– Norman Lear

Norman Lear

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

– Norman Lear

Norman Lear

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

Norman Lear

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 may even see another television show.

– Norman Lear

Norman Lear

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

Norman Lear

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

– Norman Lear

Norman Lear

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

– Norman Lear

Norman Lear

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

– Norman Lear

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

Marriage Norman Lear

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

Leadership Norman Lear

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

– Norman Lear

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