Quotes About Progress

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.

'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.

There are now superhero movies fronted by women, and I think directors generally are moving away from that stereotypical woman's role that is just about being flirted with by a man before falling into his arms.

I would love to see an Asian American superhero.

I hope in my lifetime we will get to see an Indian superhero for sure.

Just because there's one Asian American superhero in the MCU, it does not by any means imply that our fight is finished right there.

The first time I tried on Shang-Chi's superhero suit - Marvel has never had an Asian lead, so that was such a rare and impactful moment, for me as an actor but also for people who look like me. I nearly cried. It was so emotional.

Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.

I think the fact that 'Black Lightning,' 'Luke Cage' and 'Black Panther' have each made noise in their own way will only lead to different superheroes and different genres.

I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.

We don't have a lot of black superheroes.

Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes.

Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat superhuman.

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.

America has this wonderful ability to recover from its own mistakes, which is why it's so hugely superior to China.

I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.

It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.

I'm a regular guy, and I don't want anyone to look at me as being superior or having a God complex or anything like that, you know? I don't want to walk around like I know everything, because I have so much more room to improve.

I wasn't born this super, superior athlete.

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.

My Finnish is... I'm sounding like a three-year-old, at my best. It's super hard to really have a conversation, unfortunately. I know a lot of words, and so reading signs and stuff is becoming better, or going to a supermarket. But some specific words, of course, you don't get in your first year.