"I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence."

-- Peter Ustinov

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“The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.”
“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
“There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning”
“I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.”
“To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.”
“The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.”
“None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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