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" This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us. "
Michael Moore
Abuse
Gift
Human
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" One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class. "
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" Most Americans are very responsible. "
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Very
Most
" 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's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun. "
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" Politicians never keep all their promises. "
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" 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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Own
Dog
Gun
" No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? "
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Decisions
Without
Question
" 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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College
Age
" The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws. "
Michael Moore
Never
Labor
Slavery
" Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. "
Michael Moore
Language
Place
Speak
" I don't talk in sound bites. "
Michael Moore
Sound Bites
Talk
Bites
" I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free. "
Michael Moore
First
Remember
Time
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Society
Daily
Greed
" I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years. "
Michael Moore
Newspaper
Know
Years
" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "
Michael Moore
Go
You
Prey
" I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B. "
Michael Moore
School
Always
Grateful
" 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
City
Movie Theater
" 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
" 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
" Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street. "
Michael Moore
Need
Bold
Meetings
" I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle. "
Michael Moore
Lifestyle
Conservative
Person
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Look
Food
Free
" There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters. "
Michael Moore
Violence
Coming
Occupy
" 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
" 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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Health
Like
Care
" There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.' "
Michael Moore
Four
Word
Where
" Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me. "
Michael Moore
Made
Time
Me
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Work
Compromise
Next
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Time
Results
Man