Michael Moore Quotes - Page 10

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• New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

  Michael Moore

  New York, Class, Cities

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• No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

  Michael Moore

  Real, Should Have, Years

  "An Open Letter to President Obama" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

  Michael Moore

  Majority, News, Controversial

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• The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.

  Michael Moore

  Names, Wings, Majority

  "Why I'm Not Now and Have Never Been the Democrats' 'Rush Limbaugh'" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2009.

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• There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

  Michael Moore

  Should, Profit, Private Health Insurance

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• There's nothing pure about capitalism.

  Michael Moore

  Capitalism, Pure

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• Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

  Michael Moore

  Three, Documentaries, Six

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• Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Boards, Needs

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• Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

  Michael Moore

  Tired, Thinking, Democracy

  "DealBook’s Interview With Michael Moore". dealbook.nytimes.com. September 23, 2009.

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• But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

  Michael Moore

  Party, Long, Members

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• Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.

  Michael Moore

  Night, Drug, Watches

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• 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have as much loot, stock and property as the assets of 155 million Americans combined.

  Michael Moore

  Littles, Way, Dollars

  "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.

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• I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s. We have never had, as a state, the death penalty in Michigan. I was raised with that, and even Republicans in Michigan, nobody would even think of putting a measure on the ballot to have the death penalty.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Government, Firsts

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• I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

  Michael Moore

  Eagles, Mad, Towns

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• I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?'

  Michael Moore

  Hurt, Cutting, Lazy

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• I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Thinking, Purpose

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• I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

  Michael Moore

  Dvds, Video, Gone

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• I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.

  Michael Moore

  Years, Voice, Alternatives

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• I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Government, Pressure

  "My Final Word on BuzzFeed and Emad Burnat’s Detention at LAX" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

  Michael Moore

  War, Guy, Idiot

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• I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.

  Michael Moore

  Firsts, Fans, Albums

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• I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Eye, Men

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• I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, People, Good Movie

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• I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Heart, Thinking

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• I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Suffering, United States

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