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" I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic. "
Peter Ustinov
Children
Which
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" Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. "
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" I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. "
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I Am
Place
" In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. "
Peter Ustinov
America
Pressure
Freedom
" Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. "
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Being
" I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. "
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Me
Always
Music
" Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. "
Peter Ustinov
Bed
You
Conversation
" A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. "
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Head
Waiter
Sit
" Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. "
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Courage
Insight
" If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. "
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Saying
World
Done
" Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. "
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Duty
Prison
Out
" Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. "
Peter Ustinov
Wrong
Critics
Search
" Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. "
Peter Ustinov
Faith
Corruption
Nature
" The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. "
Peter Ustinov
Foolish
Best
Believe
" The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. "
Peter Ustinov
Confrontation
Social
Social Sciences
" The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. "
Peter Ustinov
Us
Truth
Truth Is
" The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. "
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Friends
Resist
Good
" Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. "
Peter Ustinov
Restaurant
Men
Month
" It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. "
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Our
Ourselves
Take
" I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. "
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Future
Office
Where
" Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them. "
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About
Them
Think
" It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. "
Peter Ustinov
Youth
Love
Discovered
" Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night. "
Peter Ustinov
Her
Wedding
Next
" The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us. "
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Truth
Ambition
Beyond
" Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. "
Peter Ustinov
Thought
Mistakes
Intelligent
" The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. "
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Only
Made
American
" Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. "
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Comedy
Way
Serious
" Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. "
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Immortality
Form
Children
" I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. "
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Find
King
Without
" To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. "
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Awards
More
" If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue. "
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Work
He
Today