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Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
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Lieutenant Seymour:
Wyatt, we do not deal with justice here, but with the law.
Lieutenant Wyatt:
Was not the one conceived to serve the other?
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Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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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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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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Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just — his turn!
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It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor.
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Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.
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Revolutions have never succeeded unless the establishment does three-quarters of the work.
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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To all those who by accident or design, have not been included in this book.
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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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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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