This week, we present a roundup of quotable quotes from notable locals from 2007. Know someone who would make a great SFR talk for 2008? Send your suggestions to:
***image1***I'm very optimistic. I would like to be free to peck and scratch around the yard and hang out with my lady friends.
-Rocky the Rooster, a cockfighting opponent, Jan. 24, 2007
The Sikh religion accepts everybody, that each of us are children of God. Everybody is equal. We don't believe in discrimination and we believe in accepting everybody as a human.
-Inderjit Kaur Khalsa, chief minister of the Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere, Feb. 28, 2007
A lot of us were disillusioned with the art community here and didn't feel like it was possible to be from here and represented by a gallery here, so we've been making our own galleries and spaces.
-Jesse Meyers, founder of AD Collective, March 28, 2007
One of the profound mysteries is that you cannot put together a profile. That's what makes it scary. It's your next-door neighbor, it's your brother, it's your father, it's the postman, it's whomever. There's not a sector of society where you do not find perpetrators.
-Barbara Goldman, executive director of the Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Treatment Center, April 4, 2007
Whenever you see big stuff on TV, you tend-everybody, regardless of professional role-to Monday night quarterback. We could have done this, we could have done that. It's hard to have the same perspective as the people in the situation, but it's a good opportunity to look at what they did well and what they didn't do well, so that if we ever have a similar situation…unfortunately, in today's day and age, those types of events could happen almost anywhere.
-Joshua Briggs, City of Santa Fe Fire Department paramedic, May 9, 2007
When we were kids we would go to the rodeo and usually the only thing we would watch was the bull riding. We didn't really care much about anything until the bulls came out. The rest of the time we were usually tearing around behind the bleachers and raising hell.
-Jim Butler, president of the Rodeo de Santa Fe board of directors, June 13, 2007
I try to say something good to people, something positive, some kind of compliment. We don't have much time to do that, but it's a little shotgun kind of thing. And I feel like I'm doing the Lord's work.
-Erwin Yarnell, World War II vet, Wal-Mart greeter, July 11, 2007
I mean, for you to go in there and put yourself in a cage with another guy and fight until one guy submits or gets knocked out-it's kind of crazy if you think about it. Yeah, I think you have to be a little crazy [laughs].
-Alberto Crane, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, Aug. 22, 2007
I would say one of the most challenging things we face is just being able to help families get their basic needs met. I think the most heartbreaking thing is to see people in these kinds of situations, but they sincerely want to change their situations and their lives. They just need to be given the opportunity to do that and they'll do it.
-Karen Cain, St. Elizabeth Shelter case manager and counselor, in charge of St. E's Street Homeless Companion Animal Assistance Program, Sept. 5, 2007
To me pornography is anything that demeans. It's part of the secrecy and guilt. If it comes from that stand it feels pornographic. If it comes from openness and honesty I don't think it is.
-Mim Chapman, author of the performance piece, The Vagina-Penis Dialogues, Oct. 24, 2007
I think the reality of the world we live in today is this: Resources-people, money and equipment-are at a premium. Most, if not all, chiefs, sheriffs and leaders of public safety have finally come to the realization that not one agency can do it alone anymore.
-Robert Shilling, captain of the New Mexico State Police's Criminal Investigations Division, Nov. 7, 2007
People say, 'Don't take it personally,' but it makes me feel bad. And I think a lot of that has to do with my
culture because, as a Hispanic female, my culture is very, very important to me.
-Fran Gallegos, former City of Santa Fe municipal judge, Dec. 12, 2007
Santa Fe Reporter