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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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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Nothing threatens a father’s involvement in the family more than his obligation to be the family’s 'financial womb,' creating 'The Father’s ‘Catch-22’': loving the family by being away from the family. It is the irony of traditional fatherhood: being a father by not being a father.
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By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the goodness of the world, whither we understand it as created or uncreated, which is the home of man because it is the home of the human mind.
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Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
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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.
