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Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

Michael Moore

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Michael Moore
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 23
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Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.
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I get called 'controversial' all the time.
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If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.
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I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.
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'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.
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Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.
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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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I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.
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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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Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.
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I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.
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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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There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'
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