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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
Journalist
Presenter
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
May
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Lying

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A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
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We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
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A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.
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Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
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All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
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When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend.
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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
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Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
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If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
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