Michael Moore Quotes - Page 12

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• Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

  Michael Moore

  Facts, Film, Falsehood

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• Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

  Michael Moore

  Artist, Filmmaker, Thrive

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• We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

  Michael Moore

  War, Men, President

  Remarks after receiving Academy Award, Los Angeles, Cal., 23 Mar. 2003

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• Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Guarantees That

  "Is Michael Moore Pro-Piracy: Illegal Copies of “Capitalism: A Love Story” Inspiring OWS?" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2011.

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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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• A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

  Michael Moore

  Past, Thinking, Stories

  "Why Is Wal-Mart Selling Capitalism: A Love Story (Out Today on DVD)?" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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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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• Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

  Michael Moore

  Elderly, Sick, Parent

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• For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.

  Michael Moore

  Brother, Two, Feet

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• Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.

  Michael Moore

  Doctors, Government, Needs

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• I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

  Michael Moore

  Country, War, Lying

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• Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Loss, Men

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• They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.

  Michael Moore

  Sarcastic, Country, Ignorance

  "The Awkward Conscience of a Nation". The Daily Mirror, November 3, 2003.

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• Well, "The Washington post" three weeks ago had this investigation and they said that President Obama has now raised more money from Wall Street and the banks for this election cycle than all - than all eight Republicans combined. I don't want to say that, because if that's the truth, that Wall Street already has their man and his name is Barack Obama, then we've got a much bigger problem.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Men, Names

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• I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Baby, Brain

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• How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?

  Michael Moore

  Comedy

  "Less of Moore" by Paul Richards, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2003.

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• 15 of the 19 [September 11th] hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

  Michael Moore

  Usa, Iraq, September 11

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• It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

  Michael Moore

  Oil, Israel, Balls

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• I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

  Michael Moore

  Media, Whining, Corporate

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

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• A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

  Michael Moore

  People, Want, Hills

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• I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

  Michael Moore

  Email, Telephones, Assuming

  " Michael Moore predicts phone-hacking scandal will spread to Fox News" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2012.

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• No one is entertained by economics.

  Michael Moore

  Economics

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• People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

  Michael Moore

  College, Class, People

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• The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

  Michael Moore

  Media, Want, Pumps

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