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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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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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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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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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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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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