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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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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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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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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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 am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
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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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If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.
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I'm never going to be a flat-line guy. My heart is going to be on my sleeve with every shot.
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I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
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Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'
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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.
