Derek Hough Quotes
I wouldn't say I'm the "nice" judge, but I was certainly reminded a couple of times that this is for a million dollars. There's one thing to just do a good dance, but I had to ask myself, "Is that the million-dollar dance?" There are certain dances that people prefer, and I preferred the intelligent and smart choreography.

Quotes to Explore
-
After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
-
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
-
I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
-
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
-
My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
-
No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
-
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
-
I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
-
I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
-
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
-
Home is where your rump rests.
-
There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
-
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
-
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
-
I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
-
Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
-
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
-
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
-
I hate it when people call me a teen queen.
-
He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
-
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
-
I wouldn't say I'm the "nice" judge, but I was certainly reminded a couple of times that this is for a million dollars. There's one thing to just do a good dance, but I had to ask myself, "Is that the million-dollar dance?" There are certain dances that people prefer, and I preferred the intelligent and smart choreography.