"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."

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Source : "Meet a Critic: Richard Roeper". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.

Richard Roeper

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“Iâ€™m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobodyâ€™s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I wonâ€™t have it, okay?”
“By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong.”
“All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself.”
“It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.”
“I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.”
“Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.”
“If you eat chicken, maybe you're on one level. If you wear a mink coat, maybe you're on another level. But if you wear cosmetics, cosmetics that are tested on animals, then you're just unconscious. Really, my message is simple. It's a message of compassion. In this world that is spinning madly out of control, we have to realize that we're all related. We have to try to live harmoniously.”
“Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.”

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