#me

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 there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this. ↗

— Norman Lear

#activist #also #because #bipartisan #career

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it. ↗

— Norman Lear

#around #bad #gotta #hang #hear

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times. ↗

— Norman Lear

#commercials #end #get #i #interrupt

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. ↗

— Norman Lear

#big #big ones #collect #come #happiness

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. ↗

— Norman Lear

#american people #controversial #heart #people #shows

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

— Norman Lear

#american people #best-educated #heart #may #people

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic. ↗

— Ang Lee

#dramatic #everything #goes #her #i

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about. ↗

— Denis Leary

#always #anticipating #any #argue #complain

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me. ↗

— Denis Leary

#because #hope #i #i want you #killing

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them. ↗

— Denis Leary

#color #hate #much #reasons #skin