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“I saw it twice. It’s a very powerful film. I’m a practicing Catholic. My film might have been called
though. The great thing about this country is the diversity of voices. When we limit the voices, we cease being a free society.”
Michael Moore, speaking of his admiration for Mel Gibson’s Passion of the
Christ, People’s Choice Awards.
“I feel a strange kinship with Michael. They’re trying to pit us against each other in the press, but it’s a hologram. They really have got nothing to do with one another. It’s just some kind of device, some left-right. He makes some salient points. There was some very expert, elliptical editing going on. However, what the hell are we doing in Iraq? No one can explain to me in a reasonable manner that I can accept why we’re there, why we went there, and why we’re still there.”
Mel Gibson on Michael Moore. Joyce Wadler, The New York Times
“Ireland is now richer than America. For most of Ireland’s modern history, Irish people went to the richer country in America and sent remittances to poor relations back home. Now, we have U.S. companies in Ireland sending remittances in profit checks back home.”
Dan McLaughlin, chief economist of Bank of Ireland, Sunday Business Post.
“You just have to look at the individual human beings who have suffered immensely, and you think what can you, as one human being, do in any way to ameliorate that, make it easier, or avoid other people having to go through more.”
Irish doctor Marie Connolly of the World Health Organization commenting on the aftermath of the
tsunami, The Irish Times.
“We want to tell a good story.”
Judith Regan on publishing the bestselling Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna
Jameson, CBS 60 Minutes.
“If George Clooney and other stars go on TV and ask you to give, then they had better be involved all the way down the line.”
Talkmeister Bill O’Reilly who questioned Clooney’s sincerity regarding the Ocean’s Twelvestar’s tsunami-relief telethon on NBC.
“This is your chance to put your considerable money where your considerable mouth is. Either you ante up and help out, or you simply stand on the sidelines and cast stones, proving that your Jan 6 TV show was nothing more than a ‘box of lights and wires’ designed to make you wealthy.”
George Clooney responding in a letter to O’Reilly. He invited O’Reilly to be a presenter on the show. O’Reilly
declined, New York Daily News.
“Sometimes I think maybe I secretly wish that I was Irish because the Irish long ago have learned to have their arguments and disagreements inside and not bring ‘em out into the public.”
Polish-American Chicago Alderman Richard Mell, whose family spat with his son-in-law, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, exploded onto the front pages in January.
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