Richard Roeper Quotes
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
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We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
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There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.
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I'm a lifelong bachelor, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't marry the right woman.
