Russell Peters Quotes
Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
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I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.
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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
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I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.
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I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
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Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.
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We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.
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I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.
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To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.
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When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."
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“I have an adult perspective now about getting to do something I love for a living.”
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In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
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Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.
