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December 20, 2008
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"This is your farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq." (Translated from Arabic)-- MUNTADHAR AL-ZEIDI, who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference in Baghdad. Al-Zeidi subsequently asked Bush for a pardon from possible jail time in Iraq

"All I can report is it was a size 10."-- President GEORGE W. BUSH

"Other kids get their cake. I get a hard time. It's not fair to my children."-- HEATH CAMPBELL of Holland Township, Pa., whose wife could not persuade a bakery to write "Happy Birthday, Adolf Hitler" on a cake for their 3-year-old son, Adolf Hitler Campbell

"We are motivated. We don't circle one game on the calendar, we circle them all."--Celtics forward KEVIN GARNETT, on the team's wins. As of Friday, the team has won 16 straight games and is 24-2 on the season

"You need a face to face the world."-- Dr. MARIA SIEMIONOW, leader of a surgical team that successfully performed a 23-hour-long face transplant operation on a woman in Ohio

"And I said, 'Holy cow, where's the house?' It literally blew the house apart."-- EDWARD W. HIMELRICK, on the explosion of a house in Scituate

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