Top 35 Richard Roeper Quotes
#1. Someday, of course, she would light out on her own, following her own riverbed, and though we'd follow as long as she allowed, and though we trusted she'd come and go from our lives with regularity, she would also be a half memory [ ... ]
Michael Paterniti
#2. There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.
Richard Roeper
#3. The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.
Richard Roeper
#4. I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.
Richard Roeper
#5. You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and misery; I
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#6. Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.
Richard Roeper
#7. I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.
Richard Roeper
#8. You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
Richard Roeper
#9. Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
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#10. We bring God glory by worshiping him. Worship is our first responsibility to God. We worship God by enjoying him.
Rick Warren
#11. I'm a lifelong bachelor, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't marry the right woman.
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#13. A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.
Ashraf Dehghani
#14. On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.
Richard Roeper
#15. The Boov are having seven magnificent genders. There is boy, girl, boygirl, girlboy, boyboy, boyboygirl, and boyboyboyboy." I
Adam Rex
#16. Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
Richard Roeper
#17. Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.
Richard Roeper
#18. I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.
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#19. Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the
Joan Z. Borysenko
#20. Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
Booth Tarkington
#21. The greatest thing about being a writer is the fact you never have to learn lines - you get to write them!
Neill Bartlett
#22. I'd say that I'm also recommending [Equilibrium] for the cool gun battles.
Richard Roeper
#24. Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.
Richard Roeper
#25. We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#26. When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.
Richard Roeper
#27. You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
Richard Roeper
#28. Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.
Christopher Lasch
#29. Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.
Richard Roeper
#30. I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
Adriana Trigiani
#31. Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.
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#32. Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever gets credit for being.
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#33. I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.
Richard Roeper
#34. Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
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#35. That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.
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