Peter Ustinov Quotes
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Quotes to Explore
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term 'junk dealer') in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.
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I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.'
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I learned a long time ago that I can't live my life for everybody else. We learn and we grow from our mistakes, and we get older and more mature.
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They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?
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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
