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Roger Ebert

American Critic

Born: Jun 18, 1942

Died: Apr 4, 2013

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Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Roger Ebert

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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. Roger Ebert

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Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted. Roger Ebert

Life Challenges Made Solved Only Accepted Up Cannot

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out. Roger Ebert

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Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate. Roger Ebert

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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. Roger Ebert

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My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.' Roger Ebert

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

People Think More Most Than Susceptible Prejudice Reason

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. Roger Ebert

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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. Roger Ebert

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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated. Roger Ebert

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Are vampires kinky? I didn't know. Roger Ebert

Vampires Kinky Know

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. Roger Ebert

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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true. Roger Ebert

You Sense Something True Makes Act

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter. Roger Ebert

People Matter Some People Some Because How Bullied Different Why

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience. Roger Ebert

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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. Roger Ebert

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We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. Roger Ebert

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