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Roger Ebert Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Money Rest Wealth Labor Debt Never

Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.

Detail Promises Building Follow See

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

Creative Start Frustration Process

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

Responsibility Maturity People Care

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Good Champion Crown You Eat Well

They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go.

Good Game Go Now Need Individual

The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to probably does his or her best to spend less. It is a human behavior that is as revealing as any other about human nature, but only if it can be released from the social straitjacket of nicety.

Life Nature Best Behavior Go Three

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

Education Good Opportunity You Your

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

Mind Crazy Think Brilliant Little

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Arnold H. Glasow

Success Time Simple Right Time Way

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

Work Beginning Thought Look Will

If things work out for you as a team, then there are individual things that happen for you. But if you're not talented enough as a team, its hard for people to give you the recognition.

Work People Team Enough Recognition

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Live World You Said Say True

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