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 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

• 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

• But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Relationship

• I have a man cave somewhere in California - a totally undisclosed location where manly things occur. There are motorcycles, there are secret doors and passageways. Women are welcome, but they must knock.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Women
  • California

• And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Revolution
  • Perspective

• Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Up
  • Powerful
  • Brain

• It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Culture
  • Picture

• We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

  

  Catharine Beecher
  • Experience
  • Law
  • Sacrifice

• 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