It seems inappropriate to concern one’s self with anything other than the horrifying situation in Haiti, but life on earth is like that. Towers crumble, wars rage, children starve, but still we watch TV, go to dinner parties and obsess about our hair. Well I do, anyway. If it helps, I feel guilty about it. I gave money to the Red Cross, but I can’t bear to watch the news. Does that make me a bad person? Maybe not bad, but maybe shallow. I don’t think I’m lacking in compassion; I give to a lot or worthy causes, and am actively involved in fundraising efforts for hospitals and medical research, but I don’t have that urge to serve that distinguishes so many worthy people. I don’t want to help out in a soup kitchen, or work with the disabled, or fly to Haiti and help them dig their future out of the rubble. Thank God there are people that do, but my support comes from my chequebook.
This regrettable squeamishness may be partially the reason why I said something truly stupid on the air last week. Obviously I wasn’t listening closely when John Derringer was talking about the death count in Haiti – I thought he was talking about how much money was being raised in Canada, so when he said “I think they’ve reached about 500 thousand”, I responded with “Wow! That’s fantastic!” Good one, Mo.
But I’m not alone:
*”To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from god." - Celine Dion
*”I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness." - Alicia Silverstone
*”If you think this is was an accident, applaud.” - Geraldo Rivera, talk show host, to his audience on Natalie Wood's drowning
*”If only faces could talk...” - Pat Summerall, sportscaster, during the Super Bowl
*”How the f*** am I supposed to get in then?" - Kate Moss, on being told that the only available toilet on a photoshoot location had no door
*”You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin.” - Laura Dern, about the special effects in the movie Jurassic Park
*"I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door." – Cher
*"Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help." - Tom Cruise
*"I wish I was an octopus so I could hug ten people at a time!" - Drew Barrymore
*"It was a sobering experience." - Lindsay Lohan on rehab