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The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.
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 just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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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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If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.
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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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It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
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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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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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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 was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.
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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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I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
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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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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
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To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
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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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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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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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