Roger Ebert Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013

Topics

HealthJoyHappyWorldProblems

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.

Max von Sydow

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Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

Steven Soderbergh

FunWeirdIronyHardWatchFilm

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Louis MacNeice

MeStoneMakeSpillThemOtherwise

When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back.

Chris Hadfield

DogPowerMyselfI AmBeerWeird

We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.

Brantley Gilbert

CareTake CareFriendsTakeGotUs

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

Brenda Ueland

WritingNeverAnythingKeepAgain

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

Brett Gelman

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Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

Thomas Hoving

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No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.

Richard Louv

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