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Other Quotes by Roger Ebert
- We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in…
- I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other…
- I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to…
- I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?
- We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were…
- Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.
- And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
- Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
- The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a…
- From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes.…
- It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you…
- 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…
- If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
- If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
- We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't…
- The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when…
- 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…
- 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…
- I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.…
More Other Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- Friendship is not only about sharing each and everything having long conversation, hanging out, its about having complete trust in each other… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle