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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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Reporter
Screenwriter
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Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?
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A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
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There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.
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My newspaper job … is my identity.
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Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
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I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
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[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.
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We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.
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James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
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Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.
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By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
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Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.
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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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Valentines Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think its more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date that person again. And if you like it, there may not be a second date.
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A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
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It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
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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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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
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