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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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And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
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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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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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Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.
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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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We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
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It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
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When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.
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And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.
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Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
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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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Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
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Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
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