Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly
-- Roger Ebert
I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
-- Roger Ebert
Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
-- Roger Ebert
I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.
-- Roger Ebert
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.
-- Roger Ebert
I would personally endure a good deal of pain just to live long enough to read tomorrow's newspaper.
-- Roger Ebert
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