Jordan Peele Quotes
Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false perception that if you are talking about race, then you're perpetuating the notion of race. I reject that.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.
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As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
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Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false perception that if you are talking about race, then you're perpetuating the notion of race. I reject that.
