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"That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people."
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."
"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."
"We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension."
"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."
"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings."
"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
"Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show."
"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."
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