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Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.
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What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.
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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
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I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
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What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.
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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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You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories
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To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
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I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
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Socrates told us, the unexamined life is not worth living. I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
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All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
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