Jordan Peele Quotes
'Thelma and Louise' was a pretty important film for me and still is. It's a social film about many things - gender, freedom - and it puts someone like me into the place of these protagonists. Watching that movie, you are living through the eyes of these women.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I am a just man.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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We have a failing Medicaid system, and you know who that's going to hurt in the end are the most vulnerable in people in our society.
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At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society. Especially for teenage kids, I don't think there's anyone that's really been through childhood and not been an outcast in one way or another.
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I opened the script to the 'The Wall,' and 15 minutes later I was done with it, and I loved the movie and wanted to be part of it.
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'Thelma and Louise' was a pretty important film for me and still is. It's a social film about many things - gender, freedom - and it puts someone like me into the place of these protagonists. Watching that movie, you are living through the eyes of these women.
