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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."
"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"
"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."
"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."
"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you."
"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."
"I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!"
Explore more quotes by Peter Ustinov
"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."
"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."
"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom."
"I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal."
"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."
"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."
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