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Income inequality isn't sexy.
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Income
Income Inequality
Inequality
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I'm not a part of the political industrial complex.
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Complex
Industrial
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Cities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay alive.
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Reinvent
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I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.
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Documentaries
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San Francisco is not a boutique - it's a center of commerce.
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Commerce
San Francisco
Francisco
San
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I don't have any political agenda. I never have and I never will.
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Political Agenda
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MSNBC is barred from my household. CNN is barred from my household.
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Cnn
Household
Barred
Msnbc
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San Francisco is the microcosm for what's happening all over the world.
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Microcosm
San Francisco
Francisco
San
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Government has to produce affordable housing. Government has to produce answers.
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Government
Affordable
Affordable Housing
Answers
Housing
Produce
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Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people.
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Towns
Expense
Real People
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I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.
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Happy Person
Documentary
Filmmakers
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Everyone talks about immigrants taking jobs, but there are a lot of jobs that America needs.
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Immigrants
Talks
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There's a certain attitude that you'll experience in San Francisco. You could call it hubris.
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Hubris
San Francisco
Francisco
San
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There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!
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Documentaries
Topic
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I mean, you can forget about George Bush or Jerry Falwell. You can't forget about a homeless kid.
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Homeless
George Bush
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It's a good line to say we're going to get money out of politics. I don't know how realistic it is.
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Realistic
Politics Good Money
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A lot of communities pretend they don't have homeless and just ignore them or try to make them go away.
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Homeless
Pretend
Go Away
Ignore
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I get that Republicans have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn my last name into a curse word.
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Curse
Hundreds
Millions Of Dollars
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No one ever won betting against Nancy Pelosi. You've got to give her credit, no matter what you think of her.
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Betting
Nancy
Nancy Pelosi
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I just don't know that we're as filled with hate as cable news leads us to believe. It's hard to hate up close.
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Filled
Cable
Leads
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As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.
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Lifestyle
San Francisco
Documentary
Francisco
San
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I live in Manhattan, and on my block there's a church with a soup line every day. There are a lot of children there.
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Manhattan
Soup
Day Children Every Day
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Cable news wants you to believe that America is red versus blue. I would argue America is way more purple than it looks.
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Purple
Versus
Argue
Cable
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Power isn't real, and it isn't earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you're leading everyone. Perception is reality.
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Perception
Earned
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There are a lot of lonely people on the planet that have a lot of money in their pocket and no place to go on a Friday night.
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Friday
Friday Night
Lonely
Pocket
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I used to be a kid with a camera, and that used to be kind of endearing to people. Now I'm sort of an old lady with a camera.
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Be Kind
Endearing
Old Lady
Lady
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I mean, you make a movie with Sarah Palin in it, you get great ratings. That's easy. I know how to get ratings: get Sarah Palin.
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Palin
Sarah Palin
Ratings
Sarah
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Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO and that's what I do.
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Bites
Documentaries
Hbo
Apple
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If you spend time with people, you understand where they're coming from and you respect them more than if you're judging from a distance.
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Distance
Judging
Time Respect People
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I come from a deeply Catholic family. My husband and I were married in a Catholic church; we decided to put our kids into Catholic school.
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Catholic
Catholic Church
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The liberalism I was taught was you're supposed to accept everyone. Why shouldn't the people in Fort Wayne, Ind., get their side on NBC News?
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Nbc
Wayne
Fort
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We like to make the distinction between immigrants we want and immigrants we don't want. They all share one thing, and that's the work ethic.
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Distinction
Immigrants
Work Ethic
Work Work Ethic Want
Ethic
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I was indoctrinated into a Democratic Party cult from a very early age. But I know that's not the only America and we need to understand the other side.
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Cult
Democratic
Democratic Party
Early Age
Very Early Age
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My mother, throughout her entire life, has been faithful to the church, even though the church has not been that faithful to her because of her politics.
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Faithful
Entire Life
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For me, if I was walking down the street and saw a politician, I'd cross the street and walk the other way intentionally, just to not have to talk to them.
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Walk Me Street
Cross
Intentionally
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No matter how holy and righteous you are, you're still gonna have to kiss up to the billionaire for the check to get yourself elected to change the laws. Even if you're Bernie Sanders.
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Billionaire
Holy
Righteous
Bernie Sanders
Check
Elected
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Everyone learns how to assimilate through watching television. Everyone thinks America is going to be like Hollywood, and when they get here they keep watching TV to find out how to be.
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Watching Television
Assimilate
Learns
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If you live in Port Arthur, Texas, and you don't have any food to feed your family for dinner tonight, global warming is not the most important issue; getting a job and feeding your family is.
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Arthur
Global Warming
Port
Tonight
Family Food Your
Feed
Important Issue
Warming
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I've always felt that everything I've done has been a conversation, a continuation of the last conversation that I had with the people who've watched my films... and that each thing led to the next.
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Continuation
Always Done People
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I am not the enemy of tech - I sleep at night with my iPhone on my heart, I'm just as addicted to my devices as every other human walking down the street through a red light in traffic while texting.
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Devices
Iphone
Texting
Traffic
Red Light
Tech
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People hate politicians, it's really in vogue right now to hate politicians, but we need someone to lead us into the new world economy, we actually need to make decisions and we actually need grownups.
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Grownups
New World
World Economy
Hate World People
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I believe that if everybody spent their next vacation in a community in America with people they didn't agree with, they'd probably leave feeling a little more comfortable about the country they live in.
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Vacation
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I made three campaign movies. When you make one you are constantly being told what to do by press secretaries. I got tired of that. Plus, I'm older now with children. I can't be riding along on a campaign bus.
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Plus
Riding
Secretaries
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My husband is a Dutch television correspondent. He's not taking any job away from an American. Because I don't really think there are any Americans that can speak Dutch and explain American politics to a Dutch audience.
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American Politics
Dutch
Correspondent
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I hate to be the one to defend George Bush, but you have to be able to disconnect the professional George Bush from the personal George Bush. I know all the anti-war folks think he is a monster, but he is still a very personable, nice person.
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Anti War
Nice Person
Defend
Disconnect
George Bush
Monster
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There are old people in San Francisco because my parents still live there. The young tech bros don't see old people or children. The Mission district, where they live and work, they don't see children or old people. That statement revealed, to me, the blinders that the techies are wearing.
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Blinders
Bros
Old People
San Francisco
Work Me People
Work Me Children
Work Me Live
District
Francisco
Revealed
San
Tech
Statement
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