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"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."
"Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys."
"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."
"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."
"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
"I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Peter Ustinov
"A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally."
"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."
"Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus."
"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."
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