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Sound bites: October - December 2003

I don't borrow on credit cards because it is too expensive.
Matt Barrett, Irish-born businessman, chief executive of Barclays Bank

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
Paul Bremer, US administrator in Iraq, announcing the capture of Saddam Hussein

From now on progress goes sideways or backwards.
John Cochrane, original Concorde test pilot, on the plane's final flight

With a name like Sebastian in Sheffield, you had to learn to run.
Sebastian Coe, British athlete, winner of gold medals at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic games

For the people to win, politics, as usual, must lose.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor, on becoming Governor of California

There is no disgrace in trying to kill people in the coolest way possible.
Quentin Tarantino, film director, on his new film Kill Bill



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