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• All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

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  Debt, Cash, Wealth

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• Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

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  Film, Good Films

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• People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

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  Thinking, People, Way

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.362, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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  Thinking, People, Trying

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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

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  Bored, Interviews, Interest

  "Playboy Interview: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert". Interview With Lawrence Grobel, reprints.longform.org. January 1991.

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

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  Depressing, Good Movie, Motto

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.282, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.

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  Stars, Air, Names

  Roger Ebert (2010). “The Great Movies III”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

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  Teenager, Mean, Hollywood

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Sometimes, it's all about the casting.

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  Casting, Sometimes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

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  Depressing, Thinking, People

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012”, p.724, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."

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  Girl, Sex, Mean

  Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.364, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

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  Wisdom, Believe, Two

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• Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

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  Thinking, Curiosity, Calling

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• Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.

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  Two, Grace, Vision

  "Pearl Harbor" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. May 25, 2001.

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• It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

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  People, Groups, Reckless

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.589, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.

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  Falling In Love, Stars, Real

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

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• Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions. Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. At first, when they were figuring out the games, he said, the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point.

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  Real, Dark, Years

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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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  Thinking, States, Born

  "Roger Ebert: 'I'm an optimistic person'" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• 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. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

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  Pain, Believe, Thinking

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Life Itself: A Memoir”, p.290, Hachette UK

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• Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

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  Long, Earth, Way

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.21, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• There is a movie called “Fargo” playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see “Little Indian, Big City,” I will never let you read one of my reviews again.

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  Cities, Littles, Fargo

  "Little Indian, Big City" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. March 22, 1996.

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• Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

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  Teacher, Drama, Inspiration

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• We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

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  Movie, Class, Actors

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• 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.

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  Laughter, Memories, Grateful

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Life Itself: A Memoir”, p.290, Hachette UK

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