Michael Moore Quotes
[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!
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The day of the week changes, but one day in the week I eat vegetarian.
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The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
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I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
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I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.
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I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient.
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You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
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I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.
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I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.
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Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability.
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In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
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The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.
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[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.
