Norman Lear Quotes

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

Norman Lear

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• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Rest
  • Lonely
  • Broke

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Children
  • Myself
  • Child

• Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Together
  • Know
  • Homework

• Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Should
  • Problems
  • Talking

• I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Independent

• But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Nails

• All children should have equal opportunities.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Children
  • Opportunities

• If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • World
  • Business
  • Pretty

• I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Family
  • Parents

• There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Humanity
  • Adventure
  • Call

• A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Best
  • Sick
  • Days

• You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Important
  • Remember
  • You

• When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.

  

  Halle Berry

• No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • World
  • Revenge

• Well, before you are always self-you’re always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what we are. I think that’s what changes: the focus on who you’re serving. You’re not serving you. You’re serving Christ.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • God
  • Focus

• Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Lost

• Even though they are such fantastical characters and situations, it's still a man trying to figure it out. These motifs of messiahs and heroes and anti-heroes, these journeys are things that we deal with in our day to day.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Trying
  • Journey
  • Characters

• I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

  

  Dan Gable
  • College
  • Danger
  • Wrestling

• If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • World
  • Business
  • Pretty

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

  

  Norman Lear
  • History
  • Informed
  • Self-Aware