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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
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" Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. "
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" I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there? "
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" Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down. "
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Backing
Away
" There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made. "
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Me
More
Made
" 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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Think
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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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Think
Problems
" No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? "
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Decisions
Without
Question
" When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. "
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Respect
Movies
Weekend
" I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.' "
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They Say
Change
People
" Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican. "
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President
Republican
Pretty
" Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning. "
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Morning
Smart
Up
" You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords. "
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Think
Democracy
Great
" 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. "
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Water
Women
Job
" I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. "
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Long
Long Time
Time
" 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. "
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College
Us
You
" I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well. "
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Support
Home
Democrats
" The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. "
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Cliff
Tax
Invention
" Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried. "
Michael Moore
Paper
Job
Been
" Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system. "
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King
Speech
Award
" I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. "
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Activist
Else
Everyone
" Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself. "
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School
Education
High School
" I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. "
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People
Respect
Movies
" I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in. "
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Work
Compromise
Next
" Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. "
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Best
Done
Few
" 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. "
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God
Way
See
" I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that. "
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Love
Believe
Good
" If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.' "
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Real Estate
Woods
Think
" You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense. "
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Self-Defense
Life
Human
" I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference. "
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Realize
Country