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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

  

  Andre Boucourechliev
  • Competition

• I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Life
  • Work

• I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Life
  • Different
  • Single

• I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn't change his, and he did all right.

  

  Fredric March
  • Wish

• The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That's exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Life
  • Time
  • Game

• There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

  

  Charlie Dent

• If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

  

  George Papandreou
  • World
  • Together

• In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Culture
  • Energy
  • Moving

• 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