"There are no guarantees. But there is also……" — Roger Ebert
"There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between."
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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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Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank…
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
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Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and…
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is…
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As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell…
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
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