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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
ROGER EBERT
I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the...
ROGER EBERT
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
ROGER EBERT
Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually abo...
ROGER EBERT
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
ROGER EBERT
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
ROGER EBERT
Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusi...
ROGER EBERT
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natu...
ROGER EBERT
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand t...
ROGER EBERT
Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
ROGER EBERT
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open t...
ROGER EBERT
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must t...
ROGER EBERT
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Ra...
ROGER EBERT
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase...
ROGER EBERT
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
ROGER EBERT
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmon...
ROGER MCGUINN
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
ROGER MILLER
The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.
ROGER STONE
The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men...
ROGER EBERT
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against t...
ROGER WICKER