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Michael Moore Quotes

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 23, 1954

Topics

Thrive More Always Liberal Artists

I am the complete opposite of my old friend, lovely John Peel, God rest his soul. He had rooms of records; I haven't got one.

Friend God Soul I Am Rest Lovely

The idea of being charming and really nasty at the same time is a really difficult thing to do.

Time Difficult Same Charming Nasty

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

Water Thinking America You Clean

Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.

Style Me World Interest Approach

The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.

Car Freedom Power School High School

You can't 'control' a Mars mission from Earth. The Mars mission is going to have to be controlled by the people on Mars... There is just too much involved that is out of sight of Earth.

People Control Mission You Earth

I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

Life Humor Think Wish Help Person

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

Good People Me Ego Criticism You

I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.

Teacher Environmental Law Small Bank

I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough money to sustain my life, I worked as a male nanny, I waited tables and did what I had to, to keep doing theater and acting.

Life Money Think My Life Doing Keep

Having good style really just means having a decisive eye and being able to put things together in an aesthetically pleasing manner. It's not a matter of spending a lot of money and throwing it all together.

Good Style Money Together Eye Just

New Zealand's food and beverage industry is the lynchpin of the country's prosperity. Which may explain why it has concentrated their governments' minds.

Food Country New Prosperity Why May

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