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Peter Ustinov Quotes

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: April 16, 1921 - March 28, 2004

Topics

Funny Humor Comedy Serious Way

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Power Police Violence Force United

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

History Deep DNA Prejudice Never

Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.

Dreams World Doing Help Something

I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President.

Perspective Government Decisions Act

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Michel de Montaigne

Good Doing Doing Good Us Rejoice

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

Work Good Attitude Hope Confident

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

Truth People Truth Is Think Feel

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

Beach Team Fashion Rocks Cuba Made

I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.

Antonio de Mendoza

Truth Habit Lie Me Believe Anything

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Ignorance Poetry Wish You Sometimes

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Sylvester Stallone

Great Art Back Go Want Mood

If you study how Ronald Reagan won first the 1980 election and then in 1984, what Reagan did is what Trump is going to do, and that is pull in a tremendous amount of blue-collar workers who have felt abandoned by the Democrats.

You Election First Study Workers

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