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Norman Lear

"The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart."

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"The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart."

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"Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play."
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"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 that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."
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