Jordan Peele Quotes
It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.
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I've been obsessed with television since I was 7 years old, and I've always been writing on some level.
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The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.
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From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
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It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
