Roger Ebert Quotes

• All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

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  Topics in Religion

• A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

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  Topics in Truth
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  We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Familiar, Ourselves

• Because I don’t give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Give, Look

• But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

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  Tags in Rich, Fact

• Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Film

• Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Film

• Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can’t give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

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  Topics in God

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Understand, Idea

• A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Action

• I think that probably the – I don’t give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn’t have had my quote opening day.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Television

• I don’t think Bush was legitimately elected President.

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  Tags in President, Elected

• I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interest, Celebrity

• I’ll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friendly

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different

• All over the web there are some very good critics and it’s become for people who are interested. It’s become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Become

• I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason

• I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idea

• I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation

• I’m kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That’s fine with me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind, Glad

Roger Ebert (39)

Birth:	18th June, 1942
Death:	4th April, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Journalist, Screenwriter

About

Roger Joseph Ebert was an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter, who had been described by Forbes as "the most powerful pundit in America". He was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the first to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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