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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I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.
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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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I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.
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With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.
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Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
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Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.
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There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
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I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
