Alexandra Shipp Quotes

I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have my own taste in music, I really loved 'One In A Million.' That was my jam.

Alexandra Shipp

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• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Style

• I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • America
  • University

• As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Culture
  • Action
  • Celebrity

• 'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Fans
  • Group

• I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Couple
  • Times
  • Therapy

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Liberty

• I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • History
  • Past
  • Change

• KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Job
  • Myself

• I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.

  

  Flume
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Beauty

• We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Trying
  • Technology
  • Environment

• Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Driving
  • Never Forget

• The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • America
  • Today
  • Strong

• Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Joy

• The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Music
  • Lifestyle
  • Intensity

• Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Feeling

• I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • People
  • Work
  • Proud

• People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • People
  • Up
  • Free

• I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have my own taste in music, I really loved 'One In A Million.' That was my jam.

  

  Alexandra Shipp
  • Music
  • Growing Up
  • Fan