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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
Actor
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Comedian
Film Director
Film Producer
Playwright
Screenwriter
Television Actor
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Writer
Camden
England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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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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A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
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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 have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
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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 four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
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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 can never forgive God for having invented the French
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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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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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Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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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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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
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Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.
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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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