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" Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan. "
Michael Moore
Back
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Giant
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" Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times. "
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" There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water. "
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" I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married. "
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" We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years. "
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" White people scare the crap out of me. "
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" I like America to some extent. "
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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. "
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" Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence. "
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" I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six. "
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" I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. "
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" Most Americans are very responsible. "
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" WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions. "
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" The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money. "
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" We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary. "
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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. "
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" It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick. "
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" I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off. "
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" You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier. "
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" The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea. "
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" I don't talk in sound bites. "
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" The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that. "
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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. "
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" A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep. "
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" The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. "
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" The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy. "
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" It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions. "
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" In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public. "
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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. "
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