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A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I thi...
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Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when dire...
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I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so bi...
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The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized ni...
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People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being t...
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Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program....
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Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desire...
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Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
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Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirat...
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My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
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By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of...
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Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
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Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
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It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
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I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the pa...
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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and dis...
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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the...
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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually abo...
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No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
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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...
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I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand t...
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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
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One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open t...
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To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must t...
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Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Ra...
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There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase...
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The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men...
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' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' p...
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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take...
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From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives...
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No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever b...
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unkno...
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We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be As...
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Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am remi...
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Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the ...
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I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.
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One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new ...
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It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.
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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned ...
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Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fa...
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What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yoursel...
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I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think...
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The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside...
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I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
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Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how...
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The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The ...
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I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giv...
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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized ni...
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Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but ...
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
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Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.
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I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
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A lot of people didn't [have sex] in high school in the 1950s, ... My favorite actors include Robert...
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Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
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Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink ...
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If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.
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A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man i...
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What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: ...
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[If you like little films about birds you might also consider] The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. ....
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When you can't escape and depend constantly on others , You will learn to cry by laughing
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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 r...
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Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex app...
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If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
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In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but...
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Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immedi...
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Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive.
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The target audience didn't care that we hated those movies because they just expected us to hate the...
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The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God...
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It was her unconvincing, elusive self-defense that continued to damn her.
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The early years were pretty rocky, there were a lot of fights, a lot of disagreements, some edginess...
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The secret of the movie is that it doesn't strain to draw parallels with current world events - beca...
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What am I to think when six weekends of this year already have been won by slasher movies that were ...
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To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have express...
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Million Dollar Baby
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Gene was a lifelong friend and our professional competition only strengthened that bond, ... He show...
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As someone who admired the freshness and energy of the earlier films, I was amazed, at the end of 'E...
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It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also ...
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The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a...
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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstrea...
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The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us t...
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Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
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Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station...
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What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for th...
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Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't aff...
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When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shor...
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Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intrigui...
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Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories...
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Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn...
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Seeing the film over and over again, year after year, I find it never grows over-familiar. It plays ...
ROGER EBERT PTSD is curable when one realises how the unconscious mind works and that the symptoms of PTSD are a...
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I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you ...
ALEX EBERT

I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I us...
ALEX EBERT

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.
ALEX EBERT If they don't see that evidence, it may well regenerate the case for a further rate hike.
CRAIG EBERT The presumption that inflation will naturally recede to the middle of the target band seems a courag...
CRAIG EBERT The market dynamics at the time we were considering those cases distorted the market and resulted in...
DAN EBERT The market dynamics at the time (that) we were considering those cases distorted the market and resu...
DAN EBERT It's not an environment to be seriously thinking about cutting interest rates. The economy is going ...
CRAIG EBERT Forget the interpretations of recession. We're still talking about a relatively stretched economy. T...
CRAIG EBERT At the time those decisions were being made here in Wisconsin, they made absolute economic sense.
DAN EBERT There's been a definite negative turn in sentiment toward the kiwi. This reflects all those macroeco...
CRAIG EBERT Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.
FRIEDRICH EBERT Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.
FRIEDRICH EBERT The first thing we need to do is understand how big the problem is. We know the costs have escalated...
DAN EBERT Yes, rates have absolutely gone up this year and it's been very frustrating for me as a commissioner...
DAN EBERT There's no doubt that the turning point is more obvious now and the signs of a further slowdown are ...
CRAIG EBERT There is much on the horizon to support household incomes, which may well prevent the slowdown the R...
CRAIG EBERT It's very hard to describe an economy with the lowest unemployment rate in the world as in recession...
CRAIG EBERT Wage inflation works with a lag and is going to stay high. It's hard to get too bearish about the ou...
CRAIG EBERT We think it's one of the best statements from the bank in a long time. It states the case pretty cle...
CRAIG EBERT

In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience se...
ALEX EBERT

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or sh...
ALEX EBERT

I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road ...
ALEX EBERT

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nos...
ALEX EBERT

I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a ...
ALEX EBERT

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.
ALEX EBERT

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.
ALEX EBERT

Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in...
ALEX EBERT

There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.
ALEX EBERT

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That&...
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The album is a thing that you can hang out with between shows. I think that it's really nice to ...
ALEX EBERT

Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel ...
ALEX EBERT

For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider ...
ALEX EBERT

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From a...
ALEX EBERT It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the mid...
ROGER WATERS When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my ki...
ROGER FEDERER

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and wee...
ROGER STAUBACH

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular resu...
ROGER STAUBACH We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the p...
ROGER MAHONY I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when ...
ROGER FEDERER You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the be...
ROGER FEDERER When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's ...
ROGER FEDERER I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divor...
ROGER WATERS I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody ...
ROGER DEAKINS

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
ROGER BACON Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.
ROGER SHERMAN

In burgundy, a well-cut and properly tailored velvet blazer looks dashing with gray flannels and a c...
ROGER STONE

Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence.
ROGER STONE Bitcoin never sleeps. We need to move quickly and grow quickly and do everything sooner rather than ...
ROGER VER In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around...
ROGER WILKINS I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would ...
ROGER REES I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, ...
ROGER FEDERER

Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brot...
ROGER STONE 'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Iden...
ROGER AVARY

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.
ROGER STONE

If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd r...
ROGER STONE From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage ...
ROGER VADIM

Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your poc...
ROGER STONE Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a poin...
ROGER PENROSE Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.
ROGER MILLA Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites ...
ROGER MILLA Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players ar...
ROGER MILLA I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, s...
ROGER MCGOUGH

Socks must be at least an 18-percent synthetic blend to insure they don't droop, because droopy ...
ROGER STONE

Lots of hardworking, blue-collar people across America have lost their jobs since the 1990s - victim...
ROGER STONE

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m...
ROGER MOORE The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.
ROGER REES

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's...
ROGER BACON

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
ROGER MOORE Men play the game; women know the score
ROGER WODDIS

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
ROGER STONE

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do...
ROGER BIRKMAN

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam...
ROGER STONE The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
ROGER PENROSE Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
ROGER PENROSE Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is h...
ROGER WICKER The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethi...
ROGER WICKER What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
ROGER SPERRY

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
ROGER ASCHAM Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on...
ROGER WICKER The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question ab...
ROGER WICKER So you think you can tell heaven from hell - blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a...
ROGER WATERS It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
ROGER WICKER The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
ROGER ZELAZNY One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
JOHN ROGER

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
ROGER STARR

The Establishment on both the Left and the Right, who want to disenfranchise the millions of Republi...
ROGER STONE

I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.
ROGER STONE I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul...
ROGER WATERS

Nothing shows both polish and utility like the nattily tucked pocket handkerchief or 'pocket squ...
ROGER STONE It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable...
ROGER L'ESTRANGE

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employe...
ROGER SMITH

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
ROGER ASCHAM

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year th...
ROGER ASCHAM

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve
ROGER LEWIN

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew ex...
ROGER BANNISTER I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ev...
ROGER ZELAZNY

You win not by chance, but by preparation.
ROGER MARIS

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
ROGER MARIS

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

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