Norman Lear
Related When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. Th... BARRY HUMPHRIES Is he laughing with you or at you? If you have to ask then likely your being laughed at BRENT M. JONES JAMES MONROE KELLEY ARMSTRONG I don't think this is a factor in political thinking. King Hussein was also married to a Palestinian... AZMI BISHARA Yet the best determining factor of how comfortable we are with ourselves, is our ability to laugh at... WES ADAMSON NEIL GAIMAN I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. SARA PARETSKY We will play hard for a series and then somebody decides to back down. The coaches yell at us when t... CURTIS BROWN I don't know why Mr. Hakim is saying this at this time. It's time for reconciliation, it's time for ... ALAA MAKKI Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing... BARRY HUMPHRIES JOHN OLIVER C. JOYBELL C. MARY ANN SHAFFER I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism ... JOE ESZTERHAS When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel. ELOISE RISTAD I think we weren't ready for them and took them lightly. There's not much more. We're not executing ... JOE WALTERS I'd rather the whole laugh my expense than have one person live their life within the social confine... TROY J. GAINEY I think we're all aware of what's at stake. But we can't get ahead of ourselves. Taking one game at ... KEVIN GALLAGHER DEAN ACHESON To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES We all sometimes take ourselves too seriously. I want them to think that I'm one of them, that this ... GENE DEFILIPPO GARY OLDMAN We're trying to make a place for ourselves in society at a time when science is trying to remove at ... ANDREW IMPARATO THOMAS BROWNE THOMAS EDWARD BROWN If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others? C.H. HAMEL This was a chance to redeem ourselves. I thought this game couldn't have come at a better time. BONNIE HENRICKSON RAFAEL NADAL I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. NEIL YOUNG THOMAS MERTON THOMAS MERTON GEORGE A. ROMERO I think the political will is there for Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform measure.... LUAWANNA HALLSTROM GEORGE MICHAEL ALESSIA CARA When Rose McDermott, a professor of political science at Brown University, got divorced two years ag... KATIE HAFNER I would tend to think that calling for a state of emergency is more political grandstanding than any... DIANNE JACOB DONALD TRUMP GLORIA VANDERBILT THOMAS SZASZ THOMAS SZASZ We are just a little bit beside ourselves with pride. And at the same time, we are trying to show as... DALE SMITH GENE GREEN JIM BUTCHER A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test ANUJ SOMANY A man is at his best when he is simply not like rest in all his life's test ANUJ SOMANY The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us fundamentals laws of nature and b... ANUJ SOMANY At the same time, I think we're more focused on ourselves than anyone else. We have a lot that we st... KAREN WEITZ WOJCIECH JARUZELSKI IAN MCKELLEN She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky. ELIZABETH TAYLOR P.C. CAST MILOS ZEMAN BEN STEIN BRENE BROWN How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time. DAVID FINCHER There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I... JOHANNA SIGUROARDOTTIR HALLE BERRY When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy&... ARTIE LANGE MARTIN PARR KATHERINE MANSFIELD If this had happened when the voters were in a better mood or the political environment was not as b... AMY WALTER CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN It is a terrible blow to me to fall ill at this time just when India is due to arrive in Pakistan. ABDUL RAZZAQ President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it b... CHARLIE CRIST This has got the attention of every CEO in America, ... How much time can the president give mediati... ROBIN LANIER It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingnes... BUD HARRIS He resents her, but I think that's mostly out of paranoia. This is not a character steeped in politi... GARY COLE History teachers help children climb mountains. JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Lear has a lot of operating issues that they still have to resolve. I can't see much upside in this ... GREGG KLEIN I think he has a difficult time making good political judgment. ED BROADBENT Koyun eti göçebe halkların temel gıda maddesidir. Ayrıca koyun hızlı büyüyen, et ve iç ya�... SERCAN AHINCANOV Be so good at what You do . . . UFUOMA APOKI GENE KELLY Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time. CARLY FIORINA The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it i... ANGELO CODEVILLA This time the mood was much more personal. There were a lot more tears and a lot less rumpus. BOB MARSHALL Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than th... TOM MULLEN I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more. VICKI LAWRENCE RICHARD BACHMAN ZORA NEALE HURSTON RALPH WALDO EMERSON At a time when political relations between Japan and China are bad, we should make efforts in the fi... SHINJI TANIMURA WAYNE DYER CHARLES M. SCHULZ DARRELL ROYAL VIDYA BALAN The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. JEFF RICH SHORT QUOTES Our policy is: If it's political in nature, it's not to be there. I would hate for us to change our ... LARRY SIMMONS RICK RIORDAN I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit. JILL CONNER BROWNE TOBA BETA Right now we live in an age of extreme Political Correctness. It has gone way too far. I hope it's j... OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Why is it that being offended only has merit when it works to serve the agenda of political correctn... TROY J. GAINEY I think the senator has looked out at the political landscape. Perhaps we'll see the country go much... BERNARD SANDERS A.A. MILNE Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward. KATE HARPER Political correctness, like fear, has no end. - cwm CHRIS W. MORRIS (CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM MORRIS)
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I'm just saying his comments before certainly factor into th... CAROL LEAR The State Board of Education has . . . constitutional authority to direct the public schools. I don'... CAROL LEAR Is it risk free? No. But if we had teachers banging down the doors, crowding our hallways, I think w... CAROL LEAR I think it should satisfy the Legislature . . . and give all students the greatest advantage to get ... CAROL LEAR Proponents of the bill want to make sure there's an opportunity for intelligent design or creationis... CAROL LEAR It is a bill trying to force intelligent design on the school districts through the State Board of E... CAROL LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best ... AMANDA LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR EDWARD LEAR We see legislation coming. A lot of companies haven't stepped up to the plate.... If we do this righ... DAVID LEAR WHEN YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO HIDE. NORMAN WILLIAM P. LEAR Women agonize over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast. MARTHA WEINMAN LEAR I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the ba... NORMAN REEDUS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly. RALPH NORMAN My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do ... RALPH NORMAN Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I t... 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RALPH NORMAN If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes. RALPH NORMAN If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the ... MARSHA NORMAN NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN FOSTER NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN MACLEAN NORMAN DOUGLAS NORMAN DOUGLAS NORMAN DOUGLAS NORMAN DOUGLAS NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't b... LARRY NORMAN I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf... LARRY NORMAN Art is more engaging that propaganda. LARRY NORMAN I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate ... LARRY NORMAN Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were re... 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At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prospero... 
wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you coul... 
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... 
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. 
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... 
I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time. 
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. 
Political correctness has become a straightjacket. 
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. 
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. 
My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right? 
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. 
Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. 
As movie monsters go, zombies are the most human. They were human at one time. So we are confronted ... 
(It's) intended as a piece of political satire, no more no less, and I hope that it will make people... 
I barely have time to think. But the best way to stay grounded is to take it one day at a time. 
I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by s... 
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. 
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. 
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.. 
I think we can always do more to get ourselves together, especially at a time of crisis, ... We can ... 
It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alon... 
It was a stupid political act ... today I deeply regret it but at the time I could not act otherwise... 
I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is.... 
I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... 
There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowa... 
I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social con... 
I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time. 
I just feel really honored that they would choose me to give the beautiful pudding pot to. One of th... 
The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace. 
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. 
The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces li... 
I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time. 
If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier. 
don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ... 
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are... 
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. 
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. 
I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time. 
I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals. 
A stupid person laughs three times at a joke; once when everyone else is laughing, a second time whe... 
June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them. 
In future, you'll laugh at yourself on some things you do now. 
It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner o... 
I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible... 
Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things po... 
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come ... 
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l... 
What you need is an idea. 
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i... 
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of the... 
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they... 
I always get more applause than votes. 
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara... 
I walk where I choose to walk. 
In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it w... 
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w... 
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. 
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em. 
I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign. 
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too m... 
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ... 
I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced. 
Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Je... 
The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationa... 
I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader c... 
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent... 
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak... 
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m... 
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except b... 
In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stif... 
He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man. 
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apar... 
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. 
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. 
I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ... 
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredi... 
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ... 
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, ... 
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it ap... 
we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.