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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.
Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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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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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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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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I can never forgive God for having invented the French
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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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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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I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
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We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
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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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