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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 am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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Please keep off the grass.
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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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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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Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
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Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.
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Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
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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
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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I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
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I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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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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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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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.
Peter Ustinov
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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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.
Peter Ustinov
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
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.
Peter Ustinov
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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