Russell Peters Quotes

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

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• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Real
  • Need
  • Busy

• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Flying
  • Saying

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Integrity

• If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Country
  • Political
  • Doing

• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Childhood
  • Drama
  • Complete

• I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Look

• It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Present
  • Ego
  • Point

• Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Remember
  • War
  • Brain

• I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Remember
  • Church
  • Week

• Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Way
  • Rest

• Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • Care

• Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Book
  • Start

• As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Love
  • Fall

• Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Coffee

• The prosperity gospel and its purveyors are worldwide and account for the rapid growth of Pentecostalism, the global religious movement prosperity preachers come from.

  

  Anthea Butler
  • Growth
  • Gospel
  • Global

• The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Hearts
  • Discover
  • Willingness

• We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really like objects of production and consumption. We're on our screens all the time; we're kind of being sold at all the time.

  

  Max Richter
  • Time
  • Culture

• We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Culture

• There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Culture
  • Race
  • Differences