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I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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Camden
England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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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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This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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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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To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
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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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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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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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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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I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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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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Please keep off the grass.
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