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# Neil Diamond, Will Smith and Alicia Keys lead this week's stray quotes
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/s-t-r-a-y-talk-20071124/
- Published: 2007-11-24T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T04:04:57.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, 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*

“I’m happy to have gotten it off my chest and to have expressed it to Caroline.” — Singer Neil Diamond, announcing that Caroline Kennedy is the source of inspiration for his hit song “Sweet Caroline”

“Ninety-eight percent of the principles \[in Scientology\] are identical to the principles of the Bible... I don’t think that because the word someone uses for spirit is ‘thetan’ that the definition becomes any different.” — Actor Will Smith, defending his decision to study Scientology “Employing someone so willing to please that they would be subservient to a B-lister for the sake of being able to say they work for a B-lister seems pretty sad.” — Ken Tarr, film writer for the Santa Monica Daily Press “Let’s walk!” — Singer Alicia Keys, inspiring a crowd of striking WGA writers to walk, before walking to her car to leave “We don’t question where he’s at; we don’t question what he believes. He’s one of us.”” —Matt Reisetter, a young evangelical leader, who’s campaigning for presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee. The former Baptist preacher’s gaining ground in Iowa with evangelicals “The Landmarks Commission was formed to enforce the guidelines and protect the historic district. If they’re not going to do that, then why do they exist?” — Candace Veach, a Third Street renter, questioning the commission’s decision to postpone discussion regarding a renovation project on one of the homes in the historic district “For the first 42.5 years of my life, I would not have been caught dead doing yoga.” — Former wrestler and current power yoga instructor Diamond Dallas Page, on the radical detour his life has taken “I’ve become even more popular than I was playing Captain Kirk.” —Actor William Shatner, venting about not being asked to participate in the upcoming “Star Trek” film

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 24, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/112407.pdf?ref=smdp.com)