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" 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. "
Michael Moore
Crazy People
Never
Been
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" The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home! "
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" A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me. "
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" 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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" 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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" I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals. "
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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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" 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. "
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Movie Theater
" My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection. "
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Bush
" I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world. "
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" Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. "
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Socialism
Live
" If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck. "
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Saying
Say
" 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
" I don't talk in sound bites. "
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Sound Bites
Talk
Bites
" There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit. "
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Insurance
" How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it. "
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Country
Down
Gun
" If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.' "
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Mean
Think
Say
" When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing. "
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Family
Good
Class
" One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business. "
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Need
Myself
Me
" We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. "
Michael Moore
Results
Man
Live
" 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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You
" 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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" 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. "
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" I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. "
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" For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet. "
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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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Time
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" I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle. "
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" The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. "
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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 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