Michael Moore Quotes - Page 3

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• I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

  Michael Moore

  Boys, Littles, Students

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• Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

  Michael Moore

  Mother, Gratitude, Army

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• You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.

  Michael Moore

  Needs, Compass, Frightened

  "All Things Considered" (NRP), November 2002.

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• I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Men, White Man

  "'Capitalism is evil ... you have to eliminate it'". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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• I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Age, Trying

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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?'

  Michael Moore

  Individual, Jesuit, Raised

  "Michael and me". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2004.

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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.

  Michael Moore

  College, Men, Media

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  School, Class, Littles

  "Michael and me". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2004.

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• White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'

  Michael Moore

  Movie, Jobs, Nice

  "Stupid White Men ...and Other Excuses For the State of the Nation!". Book by Michael Moore, 2001.

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• I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

  Michael Moore

  Goal, Want, Faces

  Michael Moore (2004). “Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!”

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• I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Phones, Care

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• Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

  Michael Moore

  Gun, People, Revulsion

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• Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

  Michael Moore

  Pension Plans, Ideas, Plans

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• Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

  Michael Moore

  Jobs, Class, Violence

  "Celebrating the Prince of Peace in the Land of Guns" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 24, 2012.

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• I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.

  Michael Moore

  Children, Two, Parent

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• Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

  Michael Moore

  People, Republican, Democrat

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• We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Suffering, Care

  "Michael Moore: 'We need to be a less selfish society'" by Kate Goodacre, www.digitalspy.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.

  Michael Moore

  Dark, Numbers, Greed

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• Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

  Michael Moore

  Government, Important, Addresses

  "Saving the Big 3 for You and Me" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2008.

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• If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.

  Michael Moore

  Fall, Support, Democracy

  "'Capitalism is evil,' says new Michael Moore film" by Mike Collett-White, www.reuters.com. September 6, 2009.

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• Most Americans, in their heart, are liberal and progressive. It's just a small minority of people who hate, they hate, they exist in the politics of hate, they don't believe two consenting adults should have the right to be in love and share their lives together and be legally protected by the state.

  Michael Moore

  Hate, Believe, Heart

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• Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

  Michael Moore

  Jesus, New York, Thinking

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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.

  Michael Moore

  Christian, Believe, Pregnancy

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• I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.

  Michael Moore

  America, Support, Troops

  "Those Who Say ‘I Support the Troops’ Really Don’t" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

  Michael Moore

  People, Evil, Democracy

  "'Capitalism is evil ... you have to eliminate it'". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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