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Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.
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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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World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.
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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
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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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The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.
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I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.
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That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.
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Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.
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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
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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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