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

• When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Black
  • Know
  • Design

• I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Heaven

• Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Decision

• 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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