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'I'd like to thank the Academy for courageously breaking the mold this time.' HERBIE HANCOCK, jazz musician, on being the first jazz artist in 43 years to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year

'The only foreign policy thing I remember he said was, he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace Ahmadinejad.' GEORGE W. BUSH, taking a jab at presidential hopeful Barack Obama

'Today is a moment of truth for Ukraine.' YULIA TYMOSHENKO, Ukrainian Prime Minister, about negotiations over a disputed energy debt with neighboring Russia. A last-minute settlement averted a midwinter shutdown of Russian natural gas to Ukraine

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