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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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Film Director
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Camden
England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
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Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.
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Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
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I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
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Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.
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It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
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That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.
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