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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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Camden
England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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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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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.
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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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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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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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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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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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The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.
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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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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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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.
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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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