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" The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that. "
Michael Moore
Art
You
Inside
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" Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state. "
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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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" If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck. "
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" I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. "
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" The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper. "
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" The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them. "
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" There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. "
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" I think movies are too long. "
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" 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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" Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. "
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" If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty. "
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Security
" Documentaries are a form of journalism. "
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Form
Journalism
" We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license... We don't require a license to own a firearm? "
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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. "
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Water
Women
Job
" You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful. "
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Gift
Spiritual
Believe
" Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans. "
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Democrats
Most
Themselves
" Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension. "
Michael Moore
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" I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?' "
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I Can
Because
Me
" 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 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
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" People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education. "
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Queen
College
Age
" I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married. "
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Right
Believe
Cannot
" 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. "
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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. "
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" Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times. "
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Liberal
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" If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble. "
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" I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. "
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Long Time
Time
" Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives. "
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Rest
Going
Our
" I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place. "
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World
Used
Place
" 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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Camel
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