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'[It] has been a choreographed farce from beginning to end.'

GARRY KASPAROV, former chess champion, on court proceedings after he was sentenced to five days in jail. Kasparov had been arrested after attempting to lead an unauthorized march against Russian President Vladimir Putin

'If he sees a very attractive woman, his eye will wander ... He doesn't look like your classic religious sort of guy.'

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, former spokesman for Tony Blair, on why Blair avoided talking about religion while in office. Blair now says his faith was "hugely important" to his performance while he was British Prime Minister

'The truth is, I am unsure about the truth.'

AMANDA KNOX, in a four-page written statement on the murder of her roommate in Italy, Meredith Kercher. Authorities say the American exchange student has given at least three different accounts of what happened that night. She is in custody but maintains she did not kill Kercher

'It is a vital danger, which means it is eating the margins of the company, but it is not an immediate one.'

LOUIS GALLOIS, the head of Airbus' parent company, EADS, on the decline of the dollar, the currency in which Airbus aircraft are sold. On Nov. 26, China placed the biggest Airbus order to date

'It beats sending them tubas.'

WIL SHRINER, television actor and director, who sent about 400 vintage harmonicas to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The instruments had belonged to his harmonica-playing father Herb Shriner

'I started to look around and see a lot of people who were unhappy. They were anesthetizing themselves with gossip or alcohol or psychopharmaceuticals or affairs.'

ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN, controversial former editor in chief of Seventeen magazine and founder of CosmoGIRL!, on why she decided to get out of the magazine industry

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