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" 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. "
Michael Moore
Respect
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" I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000. "
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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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" It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans. "
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" I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place. "
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" We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years. "
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" Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times. "
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" Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed. "
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" 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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" I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married. "
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" And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S. "
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