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Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
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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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A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
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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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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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That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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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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Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.
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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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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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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
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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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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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If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.
Peter Ustinov
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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Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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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.
Peter Ustinov
Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.
Peter Ustinov
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.
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