Russell Peters Quotes

I'm always amazed at how much people 'get' when I'm performing overseas. I've never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I've taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That's been really useful.

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• The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

  

  Haley Barbour
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• I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

  

  Ada Yonath
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• What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

  

  Felicia Day
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• It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

  

  Gary Ross
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• I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
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• You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

  

  Dan Fogler
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• I'm sad, upset, and disheartened with the trolling that happens on social media... At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so disheartening and upsetting. And then they say, 'Why don't you speak about your sexuality? You could be iconic in this country.' But I don't want to be iconic anywhere. I want to live my life.

  

  Karan Johar
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• You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.

  

  Sam Smith
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• Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
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• Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
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• I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

  

  April Bloomfield
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• You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

  

  Mary Browne
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• I'm always amazed at how much people 'get' when I'm performing overseas. I've never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I've taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That's been really useful.

  

  Russell Peters
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