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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
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I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.
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What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?
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Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
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And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.
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All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses - fix your bayonets boys - gentlemen, synchronize your watches - in ten seconds time the barrage starts,... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years.
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This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves.... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
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A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
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Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.
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I'd rather be buried at sea than on the shore when I come to die. Will you stand by the plank, mates, so I can shake a friendly hand before I sink?
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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.
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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It is unfortunate for all that no moral issue has ever been clearer. Any attempt to plea-bargain with outlaws and renegades will only be at the expense of honor, decency and self-respect. The Serbs, are two-dimensional people with a craving for simplicity and an ideology so basic it can be understood without effort. They need enemies, not friends, to focus their two-dimensional ideas. Life for them is a simple tune, never an orchestration, or even a pleasant harmony. Animals make use of their resources with far greater felicity than these retorted creatures, whose subscription to the human race is well in arrears.
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I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
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I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your — politeness.
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
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Born:
April 16, 1921
Died:
March 28, 2004
(aged 82)
Bio:
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov was an English actor, writer and dramatist.
Known for:
Spartacus (1960)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Death on the Nile (1978)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Topkapi (1964)
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