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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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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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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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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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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As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
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I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
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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.
