Russell Peters Quotes

I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

Russell Peters

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• The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Attitude
  • Almost

• I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Think
  • Age
  • Desire

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Me

• To go back means defeat.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Back
  • Go
  • Defeat

• When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Always
  • Fame
  • Possible

• In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • City

• Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Country
  • History
  • Threats

• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Understanding
  • Possible

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Party
  • Republican

• A comedian is not a man who opens a funny door. He opens a door funny.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Funny
  • Door

• We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they went out on tour, they could actually tour nationally. The band might have 20,000 friends on their list and send out a bulletin saying, 'I'm going to be in Austin on Tuesday night. Come see our show.'

  

  Chris DeWolfe
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Night

• Acting-wise, I think I did well in 'Kinatay.' It wasn't talkie, and the acting was intense.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Wise

• One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches.

  

  Marie Rutkoski
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• It's almost impossible to get a movie all together when there are two main cast members, let alone an ensemble cast with everyone's schedules. It's crazy if it works out.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Alone

• I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.

  

  Martha Stewart

• We started very poorly and they came out flying in this building, as they usually do. We had enough chances, but we're not scoring on chances the way we were. We tried to do things you can't do against this hockey club.

  

  Bryan Murray
  • Building
  • Flying
  • Chances

• A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

  

  Andrew Schneider
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Tide

• To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

  

  Richie Ashburn
  • Wanted
  • Slump
  • Batting

• People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Life
  • Small

• Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dream

• I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Reason
  • Forever
  • Media