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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
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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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 am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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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 have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
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Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.
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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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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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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.
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I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
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British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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Please keep off the grass.
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I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
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If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
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People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.
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