Russell Peters Quotes
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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To go back means defeat.
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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.
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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.
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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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.
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Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.
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A comedian is not a man who opens a funny door. He opens a door funny.
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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.
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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.
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I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.
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The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.
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I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.
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The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
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British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.
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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.
