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" There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex. "
Michael Moore
Detroit
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" A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me. "
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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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" I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement. "
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" All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst. "
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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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" I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America. "
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" Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried. "
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" We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. "
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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 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. "
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" I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem. "
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" As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices. "
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Good
You
" One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class. "
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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. "
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" 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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" How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets? "
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" If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie. "
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Capitalism
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" 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. "
Michael Moore
Gift
Spiritual
Believe
" I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. "
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" 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. "
Michael Moore
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Done
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" My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection. "
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" Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego. "
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" A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us. "
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Daily
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" I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy? "
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" I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film. "
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" If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it. "
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Sleep
Walk
Control
" I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference. "
Michael Moore
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Realize
Country
" We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things. "
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Crazy People
Never
Been
" Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. "
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Street
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" As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender. "
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