Peter Ustinov Quotes
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
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So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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The mindset of a terrorist and the mindset of intolerance know no territorial boundaries when individuals are targeted either for their eating habits or for any other reason.
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Not counting you I've never had a heartache.Not counting you I never have been blue.There's no exceptions to the rule;I've never been nobody's fool.I've never lost at love not counting you.
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Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect.
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God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).
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With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.
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'It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.' -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.
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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
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I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's important.
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Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.
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Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be.
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
