Michael Moore Quotes

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

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• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • She
  • Moving

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Human

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Good
  • Art
  • Interesting

• Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Me
  • Calling
  • Disrespectful

• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • True
  • Past

• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

  

  Dale Turner
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Mistake

• The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Me

• Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Control
  • Look

• It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Quality

• Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• There is nothing important except people. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• In the self-important, Falco reflected, there is always room for a little more self-importance.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Important

• Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World

• If, later on, my daughter wants to be in a girl group, then I think I am going to oppose.

  

  Jessica Jung
  • Girl
  • Daughter

• I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Picture

• You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Trying
  • Money
  • You

• I do not believe in psychology. And I believe in the power of God to heal minds without taking drugs that foul the mind and the body and the spirit. Taking drugs helps demons to control you and the only way to heal the trauma is to do Yogic Flying for three hours every day.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mind

• 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
  • Democracy
  • Events
  • Spectators