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.
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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.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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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.
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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.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.
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Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.
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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.
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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.
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With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
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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.
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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.
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At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
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I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.
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I am quite a fitness freak. I may not have the time to sleep, but a workout is a must. I have even set up a small personal gym on the sets.
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War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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Say no to death pies. Another good motto.
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There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.
