Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

—Peter Ustinov

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About Peter Ustinov

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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...

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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.

—Peter Ustinov

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

—Peter Ustinov

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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

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

—Peter Ustinov

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

—Peter Ustinov

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More quotations tagged with “doubt”

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

—Clarence Darrow

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

—Christine Bovee

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

—Bertrand Russell

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

—Bertrand Russell

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

—Arthur Golden

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