Jordan Peele Quotes
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements.
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I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as well as black friends - and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism.
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What's the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed world? Amazon believes their platform has a chance to become the third.
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I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
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The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.
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You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.
