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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I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.
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It's not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise!
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.
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He criticized baseball's racial policies after he stopped playing, especially how blacks were forced to travel. He even criticized some black players for not standing up for their rights.
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
