Peter Ustinov Quotes
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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I would love to do something with Coldplay.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
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Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.
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If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble.
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What some Americans don't appreciate is how strong the brand of the American Dream is around the world. I'm an example of how powerful that product is.
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I didn't want to be out of order answering any questions.
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A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
