Roger Ebert Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

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

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• Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

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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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