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To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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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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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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The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.
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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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American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.
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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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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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Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
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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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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.
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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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I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
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Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
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I can never forgive God for having invented the French
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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
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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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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 have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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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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