| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33386 |
| QUOTATION: | I am as sorry as you are, Dimitri. Don’t say that you’re more sorry than I am because I’m capable of being just as sorry as you are, so we’re both sorry, all right? All right. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter, Peter George (1925–1966), U.S. screenwriter, and Terry Southern (1928–1995), U.S. screenwriter. President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, apologizing to drunken Soviet premier about American nuclear attack (1964).
Adapted from Peter George’s novel Red Alert, which he wrote under the pseudonym Peter Bryant. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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