Roger Ebert Quotes

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• No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
• Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician?…
• What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
• Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I…
• The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.
• I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
• Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in…
• We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
• I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would…
• Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better…
• Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that…
• Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all…
• Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
• Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news…
• I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily.…
• If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
• A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.
• In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.
• An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find…
• At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is…

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