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I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
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Urbana
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Roger Joseph Ebert
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I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
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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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Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.
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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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Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.
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Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
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