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" The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction. "
Michael Moore
Never
Distraction
Fooled
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" Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican. "
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" This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas. "
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White
Canada
Book
" Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. "
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You
Up
Against
" One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business. "
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Myself
Me
" 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 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. "
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Rich
Camel
Believe
" I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia. "
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Ask
Conscience
Everything
" No one is entertained by economics. "
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Economics
Entertained
" I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong. "
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Look
Food
Free
" I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell. "
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Me
Want
Flying
" 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
You
American
Hard Work
" Documentaries are a form of journalism. "
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Documentaries
Form
Journalism
" Most Americans are very responsible. "
Michael Moore
Responsible
Very
Most
" We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game. "
Michael Moore
Off
People
Reward
" If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble. "
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Always
Struggle
Need
" We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary. "
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Need
Documentary
Supporters
" Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me. "
Michael Moore
Made
Time
Me
" I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union. "
Michael Moore
Health
Insurance
Age
" As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices. "
Michael Moore
Free
Good
You
" Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. "
Michael Moore
Regulate
Evil
Cannot
" Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things. "
Michael Moore
People
Credit
Nobody
" 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
" One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you. "
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Time
Great
Death
" What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.' "
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Country
You
Good
" 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. "
Michael Moore
King
Speech
Award
" 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
Know
American
Go
" I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education. "
Michael Moore
Early
Back
Education
" The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them. "
Michael Moore
Without
Work
World
" I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change. "
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Men
Say
Stupid
" I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax. "
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You
Responsibility
Personal