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# Cynthia Vazquez: Quotes on Sopranos finale, Heidi Klum and California fires
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/s-t-r-a-y-talk-20071027/
- Published: 2007-10-27T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T03:41:16.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*A center-cut, no-fat review of what was said this past week by folks the world over and right at home*

*By Quotations captured and compiled with care by CYNTHIA VAZQUEZ.*

“Why would we entertain people for eight years only to give them the finger?” — “The Sopranos” creator, David Chase, finally explaining, after months of speculation, that the blackout at the end of the series finale wasn’t meant as a prank or a tease “And I pretty much saw everything. The whole package.” — Model Heidi Klum on how her partner, Seal’s, skin-tight gym shorts were what first attracted her to the singer “It’s just the way it is for us. The house, wife and 2.5 kids elude. Gosh, I envy lesbians.” — Santa Monica Daily Press columnist, Mark Marchillo, on being lonely and gay in the city “People are selfish. These people with the fires and the floods and everything, they overbuild and they put nature to the test, and they get what’s coming to them, that’s what I say.” — Comedian George Carlin, on why he believes humans are to blame for this week’s fires in California “It was either the sex trade or music, and I don’t think there was much future in that other trade.” — Singer Suzy Williams, lead for the band Suzy Williams and Her Solid Senders, who will play at Temple Bar on Monday, on choosing a vocation “I would rather say the line, ‘I worship you, Satan,’ than say my favorite baseball team is the Yankees.” — Actor and director, Ben Affleck, a Boston Red Sox fan “It was a terrible accident, a tragedy for the people who were injured. But the city … and the taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for Mr. Weller’s acts.” — Jeanette Schachtner, Santa Monica deputy city attorney, on a reversal by an appeals panel that allows victims of the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market crash to sue the city “We think we’re on a nerdy mission. Our job is to make the uncool cool.” — Bathsheba Birman, co-founder of the nerd-themed dating Web site, Nerds at Heart

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 27, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/102707.pdf?ref=smdp.com)