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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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Michael Moore
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 23
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Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?
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Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.
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L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.
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In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).
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I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.
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When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.
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Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.
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I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.
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If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.
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Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
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Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.
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What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that I'm not an economist.
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I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws I find them way too restrictive.
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You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.
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I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.
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