Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.


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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
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes ...
ROGER MAHONY
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
ROGER MOORE
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' p...
ROGER EBERT
In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.
ROGER STAUBACH
Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashi...
ROGER STONE
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take...
ROGER EBERT
How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to ...
ROGER STONE
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaig...
ROGER STONE
Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media ...
ROGER STONE
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists a...
ROGER AILES
Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
ROGER WATERS
The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is...
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE
The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cli...
ROGER GOODELL
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives...
ROGER EBERT
If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I gue...
ROGER ZELAZNY
It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the bi...
ROGER BART
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever b...
ROGER EBERT
In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.
ROGER AILES
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
ROGER MAHONY
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have b...
ROGER MOORE
I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign po...
ROGER STONE
Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Roger Ebert
ROGER EBERT
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
ROGER CRAWFORD
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise...
ROGER ZELAZNY
Burberry makes the best version of the traditional trench coat, which can have a zipper and button-i...
ROGER STONE
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unkno...
ROGER EBERT
I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.
ROGER MOORE
When I went to Hollywood, I had to work out in a gym. The idea was that I should look like Daniel Cr...
ROGER MOORE
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temp...
ROGER STAUBACH