Peter Ustinov Quotes
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?” “I’ve always been a stick-in-the-mud.” Her brother cast her a thin smile. “I just hid it beneath all the debauchery.” She sniffed. “I wish you’d hide it again. It’s quite annoying.
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The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
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Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.
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Show me an alley, show me a train Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain And I'll show you a young man With many reasons why There but for fortune, go you or I
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
