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I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
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There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.
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Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.
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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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What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
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Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.
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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
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Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.
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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
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Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
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Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society.
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Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look at my e-mails, I see the same Limbaugh rhetoric apparently, people don't have any ideas of their own. And there's just this drumroll of anti-progressive thought.
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It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.
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It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.
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I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the numbers. The average person walks 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. I walk 10,000 steps a day. I have lost a lot of weight as a result.
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My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.
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Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.
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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.
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