Peter Ustinov Quotes
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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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People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
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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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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 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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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.
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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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Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
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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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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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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 don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.
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Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
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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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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
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I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
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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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Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.
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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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