Alexandra Shipp quotes

I just have always wanted to shave my head. I think every woman should just do it once in her lifetime.
-- Alexandra Shipp

#Thinking #Lifetime #Just Do It

I feel like as a whole, when it comes to the "other" in the US - whatever that looks like for each individual person, whether it be someone who's LGBTQ or someone of color or someone who's just a religion that they've never heard of - whether you're in entertainment or whether you're in any other business, we're not as evolved as we'd like to think.
-- Alexandra Shipp

#Thinking #Individual

I would love to say that the world is changing in the movie industry for people of color, women, the LGBTQ community and other minorities since I began my career, and that we are evolving as a species, but I think that given this social and political climate, I'm at a loss. It's like running a marathon and thinking you're halfway done and you can see the finish line - but the finish line is actually the first checkpoint.
-- Alexandra Shipp

#Running #Loss #Thinking

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.

When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.

If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.