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What They Said: Test Your Memory of 2014's Quotable Moments

As the year draws to an end, see if you can match newsmakers with their soundbites.
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From Sochi to West Africa and Ferguson to Malaysia, 2014 was full of big headlines — and big talkers. See how much of what was said you remember by matching the quotes to the newsmakers. Click on the video below each quote to see if you got it right.

“Losing a job you love hurts.”

  1. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
  2. Former New York Times Editor Jill Abramson
  3. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
  4. Former Secret Service Chief Julia Pierson

“I am who I am…but I am not a bully.”

  1. NFL star Adrian Peterson
  2. Texas Gov. Rick Perry
  3. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
  4. Russian President Vladimir Putin

“It’s okay to be who you are, whether you’re gay, straight, black or white. It’s okay to be comfortable in your own skin.”

  1. NFL player Michael Sam
  2. Apple CEO Tim Cook
  3. Actress Ellen Page
  4. Actress Raven-Symone

“I fired because I got a fright. I never intended to shoot anyone."

  1. Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson
  2. Olympian runner Oscar Pistorius
  3. Porch shooter Theodore Wafer
  4. Pennsylvania sniper Eric Frein

“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so.”

  1. Physicist Stephen Hawking
  2. Illusionist David Blaine
  3. Televangelist Pat Robertson
  4. Pope Francis

“Am I entitled to one mistake?”

  1. Former L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling
  2. Comedian Bill Cosby
  3. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
  4. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Director Daniel Varga

“I’ll never get Twitter.”

  1. Queen Elizabeth II
  2. Actress Jennifer Lawrence
  3. Actor Taye Diggs
  4. Kim Kardashian

“I just want him to acknowledge what he did, take responsibility and apologize to these women.”

  1. Bill Cosby accuser Angela Leslie
  2. Bill Cosby accuser Janice Dickinson
  3. Bill Cosby accuser Beverly Johnson
  4. Comedian Hannibal Burress

"Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms? Or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together?"

  1. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan
  2. President Barack Obama
  3. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  4. Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Malala Yousafzai

"I’ve been beating myself up all day. Then I thought ... what would Idina Menzel say, She'd say, Let it go, let it go!”

  1. John Travolta
  2. Adele Dazeem
  3. Demi Lovato
  4. Ellen DeGeneres