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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Conformity is dangerous.
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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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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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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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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.
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Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
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We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.
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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
