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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.
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This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
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It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
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Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
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What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?
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When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
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Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
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If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
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I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
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As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.
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Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
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A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
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If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.
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I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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