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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
Actor
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Film Director
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Camden
England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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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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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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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
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Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
Peter Ustinov
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
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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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Please keep off the grass.
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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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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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This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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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 had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.
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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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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Peter Ustinov
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.
Peter Ustinov
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
I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
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.
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