Derek Theler Quotes

When I first dropped into L.A., I wanted to be a superhero!

Derek Theler

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• The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Home
  • Sorry

• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Me

• Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Time
  • Fight
  • Arts

• I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Live
  • Want
  • Way

• It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Time
  • You
  • Easy

• My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Great
  • City
  • Commitment

• In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Environment

• I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Dialogue
  • Adapt

• Kadar died as a mass killer, and the Hungarian nation can't forget that.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Forget
  • Nation
  • Hungarian

• It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Country
  • Political
  • Responsibility

• Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Done

• After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Great
  • Different
  • Character

• Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People

• My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege.

  

  Jenny Han
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Revolution
  • Boxing
  • Temptation

• There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

  

  August Krogh
  • Doubt
  • Swimming
  • Movements

• I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

  

  Peter Lerangis
  • Soul
  • Travel

• Films are just consumables.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Men
  • Character

• No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Friends
  • Actors
  • Superhero

• When I first dropped into L.A., I wanted to be a superhero!

  

  Derek Theler
  • Superhero