Jordan Peele Quotes

There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are.

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• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Sometimes
  • Goals
  • Rapping

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Story

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• My parents could not be more Italian.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Parents
  • More
  • Italian

• What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • American
  • Religion

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings

• That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Will
  • Economic
  • Policy

• It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Important
  • You
  • Customer

• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Theater
  • Arena
  • Park

• I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Church

• The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Money
  • Power
  • Peace

• I enjoy getting any kind of mail. Like, for me, like, the more interesting a letter is, I just get more excited, and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

  

  Pras Michel Fugees
  • Time

• My statue at Ole Miss is a false idol. And it wasn't put there for my benefit. It was put there for Ole Miss and Mississippi.

  

  James Meredith

• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Black
  • Said

• For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful.

  

  John Romaniello
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Black