"It is an interesting law of romance that……" — Roger Ebert
"It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care."
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269 Quotes by Roger Ebert
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Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not…
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I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional…
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Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
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What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away,
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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter…
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I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
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Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about…
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Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
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The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
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To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
— Samuel Beckett
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a…
— Adam Nicolson
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My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me,…
— Joy Harjo
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws…
— Joseph Addison
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The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater…
— Laurence Sterne
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A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to…
— Jesse James Garrett
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The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself…
— Justus von Liebig
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Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
— Rick Warren
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...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere,…
— Rebecca Solnit
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