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Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov ( OO-stin-ov; 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was a British actor, writer and humanitarian. An internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. Ustinov received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Silver Bear, a Laurel Award, a Photoplay Award and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for three BAFTAs, two Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Gemini Award. In 1992, Ustinov was awarded with the British Academy Britannia Award.

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Quotes from Peter Ustinov

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

—Peter Ustinov

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

—Peter Ustinov

knowledge certainty expertise

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

—Peter Ustinov

love forgiveness habit

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

—Peter Ustinov

friendship friends time belief

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

—Peter Ustinov

freedom choice USA conformity

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

—Peter Ustinov

I can see from your utter misery, from your eagerness to misunderstand each other, and from your thoroughly bad temper that this is the real thing.

—Peter Ustinov

misery eagerness temper

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

—Peter Ustinov

war terrorism poverty wealth class

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

—Peter Ustinov

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

—Peter Ustinov

commonality belief doubt

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

—Peter Ustinov

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

—Peter Ustinov

optimism foolishness

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

—Peter Ustinov

words writing criticism language

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

—Peter Ustinov

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

—Peter Ustinov

money work advertising

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