Norman Lear Quotes
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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The fact that President Obama gave up his public holiday (today is the President’s Day) and held the US-Asean Leaders Summit has shown Washington’s recognition towards the importance of Asean
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, "That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked.
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You can't have costs ahead of your unit revenues. What I wake up at night worrying about is that our proposals are not aggressive enough.
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After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, 'Oh! Life is so hard!' and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.
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Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
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Life is about having a good time.
