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I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

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Jordan Peele
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 21
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I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.
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You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.
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I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
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We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.
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You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice.
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[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.
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I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.
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When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.
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A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.
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Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.
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Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.
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It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
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Racism is within each and every one of us.
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The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.
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Anyone who's really utilized collaboration has a philosophy like, 'Let's throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.' That's how we do it. At a certain point, we're cutting scripts that we love.
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I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious that affects the way we work and we operate as a group.
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I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.
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You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.
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I didn't know my father very well I only met him a few times.
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The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.
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