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• Nothing seems crueler--or more ironic--than these upper crusters who never pay a dime for their high-priced shrinks or reflexology sessions to call those who just want that tumor removed from their uterus a bunch of commies. Well, the revolution is at hand and let's hope all those uninsured commies give the rich such a headache that a whole bottle of Advil won't be enough to take the pain way.

  Michael Moore

  Pain, Hands, Giving

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”

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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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• My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.

  Michael Moore

  Reelection, Film

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• I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.

  Michael Moore

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

  Michael Moore

  Gun, Want, Able

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• I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.

  Michael Moore

  Grateful, School, Film

  Interview with Andrew Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2002.

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• I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

  Michael Moore

  Confused, Taken, Lines

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• North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

  Michael Moore

  Country, America, Korea

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• Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Citizens United, Politician

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• My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

  Michael Moore

  Impact, Ideas, People

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• I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

  Michael Moore

  Law, Way, Bigs

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• I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst.

  Michael Moore

  Analysts, Pundits

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• I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Voting, Principles

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• I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.

  Michael Moore

  Hours In The Day, Enemy, Bucks

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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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• If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Broken, Majority

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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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• I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

  Michael Moore

  Blessed, People, Want

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• Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

  Michael Moore

  Class, Unions, Middle

  "Happy F**kin’ Labor Day!" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2010.

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• Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

  Michael Moore

  Proof, Revisionism, Recovering

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• 'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

  Michael Moore

  Two, Oscars, Firsts

  Michael Moore (2011). “Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

  Michael Moore

  Dixie, Pope, Chicks

  Michael Moore (2004). “Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters from the War Zone”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working.

  Michael Moore

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?

  Michael Moore

  Humorous, People, Guy

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• I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Arrogance

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