Derek Kilmer Quotes
I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.
Quotes to Explore
-
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
-
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
-
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
-
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
-
You have to know you can first. How comes later.
-
I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
-
Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
-
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
-
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
-
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
-
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
-
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
-
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
-
We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
-
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
-
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
-
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
-
I just don't live my life in a world where I am not feeling my best, and feeling my best is feeling sexy.
-
Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.
-
If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.
-
Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
-
I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.
