Matthew Shipp Quotes

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

Matthew Shipp

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• Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • Belief
  • Slow

• The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Future
  • Technology
  • Location

• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Home
  • Fear
  • Action

• I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Character
  • Judge

• You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Health

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Hair
  • Hat

• A lot of people don't understand how hard the girls on 'Total Divas' work. They're on the road, the same as the rest of us, and then when they get home, they've got to be filming this whole time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Important
  • Done
  • Lies

• I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Simple
  • New

• Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Boat

• When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Career
  • Party

• Decadence is wonderful.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Wonderful
  • Decadence

• There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower-bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hand
  • Cold
  • Chill

• Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally - that was a man’s life.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Life

• I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

  

  Don Mattingly
  • Game
  • Learning
  • Decision

• When humility enters our souls, we are at last able to perceive that we do not live alone in the world but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden in the heart of each is the same animating spirit.

  

  Uell Stanley Andersen
  • World
  • Live
  • Heart

• I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

  

  Theo Epstein
  • Baseball
  • Adversity
  • Improve

• I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

  

  Matthew Shipp