Alexandra Shipp Quotes

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'

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• My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Strong
  • Crazy

• Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts

  

  Namkhai Norbu
  • Real
  • Suffering
  • Roots

• I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Laugh
  • Not Cry

• Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Remember
  • Desire
  • Result

• The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

  

  William Bradford Shockley Jr.
  • Projects
  • Devices
  • Producing

• But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.

  

  William H. McRaven
  • World
  • Want
  • Military

• He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Value
  • Greater
  • Robbed

• Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Knows
  • Wishes
  • Wisest Man

• You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Road
  • Jump
  • Hide

• For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Giving
  • Band
  • Feels

• I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Character
  • Story
  • Process

• So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

  

  Warren Jeffs
  • Music
  • Black
  • Spirit

• If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Huge

• The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Room
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  • Whispers

• If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Possible

• Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Crazy

• My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'

  

  Alexandra Shipp
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