Jordan Peele Quotes

Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.

Jordan Peele

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• I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Preparation

• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Christmas
  • Cards

• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Enjoy
  • Explore

• But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Effort
  • Yourself

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Know
  • Wind

• Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Control

• We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Money
  • Nature
  • Value

• I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Man
  • Hotel
  • Heartbreak

• I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Better
  • Apple

• I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hunger Games!' I knew that I had to give this audition my all.

  

  Jacqueline Emerson
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Present

• I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Story

• Early numbers are always wrong.

  

  Mary Cheney

• When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I can make a movie that's different, that explores something that's not a retread of something else, I'm interested in it.

  

  Don Coscarelli
  • Time
  • Different
  • Movie

• Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Different
  • Guilty
  • Racism