Peter Ustinov Quotes
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I always played to win.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
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I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'
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You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.
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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
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My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.
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People never believe you.
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I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.
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It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.