Peter Ustinov Quotes
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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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
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Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
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I think the Brexit vote in Great Britain informing this populist movement of nationalism is kind of a global thing, and I think it's no particular political party's fault. People have been left behind, and in America, we're used to going forward. It's always like we're going to be better; the next generation's going to be better.
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A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
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There's a myriad of things that go into why movies don't happen right when you make them. If you make a movie in 2010, sometimes it takes up to a year for post-production, and that puts you into 2011, then you have to figure out what your product is, and that takes some time.
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The organism feeds on negative entropy.
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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.
