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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
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Roger Joseph Ebert
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The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?
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The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.
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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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One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered
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If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.
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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
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We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.
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Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
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Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
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It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.
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Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive.
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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 His.
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Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.
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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 it never will.
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The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
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The very fact of snow is such an amazement.
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Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them.
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All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
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The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.
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