Russell Peters Quotes
You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.Russell Peters
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
Warren Zevon -
Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
Tamra Davis -
Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
Talulah Riley -
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde -
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I'm not interested in celebrity.
Orlando Bloom
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
Lalaine Vergara-Paras -
For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
Rachel Cusk -
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
Quincy Jones -
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Irwin Shaw -
In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
Sam Kean -
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
Venus Williams -
I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
Queen Latifah -
I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.
Jay IDK -
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding -
Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.
Antonio Damasio -
What I did or didn't do, I think it's over now. And what I will or will not do, I think is also over.
Antonio Porchia
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I hope that nothing ever wussifies me to deny my own personal beliefs. Brainwashed wussies have been taught that standing up for yourself and defending your personal point of view makes you a close-minded hate monger. One must also be respectful of dissenting belief while supporting their own.
Brad Stine -
We need to be more grateful. I think there is no true character without gratitude. It is one of the marks of a real strong character to have a feeling of thanksgiving and gratitude for blessings. We need more of that spirit in our homes, in our daily associations, in the church, everywhere. It doesn't cost anything, and it is so easy to cultivate.
Ezra Taft Benson -
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
William Eggleston -
If everything happens for a reason, what's the reason?
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You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.
Russell Peters