Jordan Peele Quotes
Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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I make people step over the ant trail.
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I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.
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Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.
