Roger Ebert Quotes

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• By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became…
• Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow…
• Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
• Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
• I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
• I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.
• Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
• But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
• Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.
• If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
• It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
• Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
• There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and…
• Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
• I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.
• Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
• The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
• The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change…
• What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
• Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals…

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