Peter Ustinov Quotes
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
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Who does understand life?
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
