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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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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When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
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I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
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I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.
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Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.
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Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
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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.
