Russell Peters Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
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Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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I love being a dad, and I'm a great dad.
