A CENTER-CUT, NO-FAT REVIEW OF WHAT WAS SAID THIS PAST WEEK BY FOLKS THE WORLD OVER AND RIGHT AT HOME “I can’t possibly substitute my judgment for yours... you have to do what is right for you and that may not be what anybody else believes.” — Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on the “Tyra Banks Show,” discussing what she tells women who come up to her for advice on dealing with infidelity “Every time I shave my brows, I’m a little weirded out by the idea of using a blade so close to my eyeball. What if my hand slipped? I mean, that would never happen... unless there was an earthquake. That could happen if there was an earthquake. What if there was an earthquake?” — Santa Monica Daily Press columnist, Mariel Howsepian “My girlfriend Camila and I made a baby together, its three months growin’ in her womb and all looks healthy and lively so far.” — Actor Matthew McConaughey’s announcement that his partner’s pregnant “Thinking of an arbitrary 75,000 square foot a year doesn’t really solve (traffic). It just doesn’t make sense and it really is, I believe, something to screw us up and stop us from doing what we should do.” — Mayor Herb Katz on a movement to limit development in the city “I can’t hit on a girl in public like I used to. I never thought words like `undignified’ would come into my own reflections on myself, but I can’t do it anymore.” — Jack Nicholson “I think there are a lot of people that would like it very much.” — Jonathon Conant, owner of Trapeze School New York, a company who plans on opening a trapeze school on the pier “It’s rough and tumble, and it’s wild and woolly and it’s a blast. It’s a blast. It really is fun, because... there is nothing better than... going out there and fighting the fight and, suddenly you see, things are better.” — Tom Cruise, on Scientology “Let me tell you two key things here: His portrait is not coming into the collection, and it’s not hanging permanently.” — Smithsonian spokeswoman Bethany Bentley allaying people’s concerns that Stephen Colbert’s portrait will hang permanently in the museum’s National Portrait Gallery
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 19, 2008. Read the original PDF.