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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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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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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After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.
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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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One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.
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I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
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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.
