Norman Lear Quotes

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

Norman Lear

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• That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Passion
  • Danger
  • Attraction

• Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • World
  • Think

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Women
  • Reality

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Moral
  • Self

• I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Should

• Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Party
  • Wonder

• Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Being
  • Fulfillment

• When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

  

  Owen Wister
  • You
  • Choose
  • Just

• 'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Truth

• Eye without lid, mind without any dream -These are of minstrels lacking minstrelsy, Of an earth in which the first leaf is the tale Of leaves, in which the sparrow is a birdOf stone, that never changes. Bethou him, you And you, bethou him and bethou. It is A sound like any other. It will end.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Earth

• 'Life' in this 'society' being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of 'society' being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without a heart. Our heart will never be divided again.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Heart

• The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Important
  • Experience
  • American

• And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Crazy

• I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • School
  • Light
  • Model

• We battled to get in this spot, and we've got to feel proud about what we've accomplished, ... We just want to keep it going right now; we just need to keep riding that wave.

  

  Nick Swisher
  • Proud
  • Wave
  • Keep Going

• Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Career
  • Teacher
  • Leadership

• When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

  

  Angel Olsen
  • People
  • Responsibility

• We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

  

  Edwin Soeryadjaya
  • Responsibility
  • Failure

• I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

  

  Norman Lear
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership
  • Morality