Jordan Peele Quotes
I'm a true believer in story. I think when you just tell people to think, people tend to get resistant and defensive and feel like you're accusing them of not thinking.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
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You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.
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I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.
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There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.
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I'm a true believer in story. I think when you just tell people to think, people tend to get resistant and defensive and feel like you're accusing them of not thinking.
