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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met.

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 thats not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. – Norman Lear

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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you dont collect all these tiny successes, the big ones dont really mean anything. – Norman Lear

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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. Theyre all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. – Norman Lear

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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 theres a very strong bipartisan part in all of this. – Norman Lear

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