Russell Peters Quotes

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

Russell Peters

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• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Job
  • Best

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Think
  • Woman

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Hollywood

• We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • World
  • Movie
  • Want

• I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • World
  • Idea

• Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Life
  • World
  • Make A Difference

• A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • You
  • Couple

• Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Men
  • Age

• I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • World
  • Power
  • Period

• Yet trees are not 'trees', until so named and seen and never were so named, till those had been who speech's involuted breath unfurled, faint echo and dim picture of the world

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Picture

• Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.

  

  Jon Katz
  • World
  • Animal

• I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Believe
  • Always
  • I Believe

• I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Life
  • Today
  • Military

• Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

  

  Russell Peters
  • World
  • Population
  • Invisible