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a
hero
zan ordinary individual
who finds the strength
to persevere and endure
in spite of
overwhelming Obstacles.
ChriS±0pher Reeve
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GREAT TEACHERS
ARE HEROES A
WORLD THAT HAS
A LOT TO LEARN
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THERE ARE
HEROES IN EVIL
AS WELL AS IN
GOOD.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again
and again.
(Joseph Campbell)
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BEST
ALL
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HEROES
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Heroes may not be
braver than anyone else.
They're just braver five
minutes longer.
Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President
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B HERO
IS JUST
SOMEONE
WHO es
BRAVE
FOR A
little
LONGER
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"A HERO IS AN ORDINARY
MAN, BUT HE IS BRAVE FIVE MINUTES LONGER."
RALPH whoo EMERSON
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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. Votes: 4

Gerard Way

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Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. Votes: 4

Ronald Reagan

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Heroes are a mischievous race. Votes: 3

Jeremy Collier

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Heroes? Don't believe in them. Votes: 3

Samuel Fuller

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Heroes don't get anything but dead. Votes: 3

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Heroes are born to be troublemakers. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death. Votes: 3

Shan Sa

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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Votes: 3

Babe Ruth

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Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war. Votes: 3

Richard Dawson

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Heroes don't have friends, they have fans. Votes: 3

Amit Kalantri

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Heroes come along when you need them. Votes: 3

Ronald Steel

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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. Votes: 3

Henry David Thoreau

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Heroes come and go, but legends are forever. Votes: 3

Kobe Bryant

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Heroes may die but they doesn't get tired. Votes: 3

Amit Kalantri

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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool. Votes: 3

Felix Baumgartner

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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat Votes: 3

Mahatma Gandhi

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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did. Votes: 3

W. P. Kinsella

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Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it. Votes: 3

Joe Abercrombie

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Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes. Votes: 3

George Takei

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Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious. Votes: 3

Gregory David Roberts

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Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes. Votes: 3

Kenneth Clark

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Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities. Votes: 3

Garrison Wynn

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Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will. Votes: 3

Gore Vidal

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Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations Votes: 3

Rick Riordan

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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best. Votes: 3

Waylon Jennings

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Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world. Votes: 3

Amit Kalantri

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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. Votes: 3

David Gemmell

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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away. Votes: 3

Tom Brokaw

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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them. Votes: 3

Thomas Carlyle

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Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise. Votes: 3

Max Beerbohm

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Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves. Votes: 3

Michael Moorcock

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Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes. Votes: 3

Amit Kalantri

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'Heroes' was a huge show with 12 cast members and giant special effects. Votes: 3

Sendhil Ramamurthy

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At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements. Votes: 3

Masi Oka

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Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them. Votes: 3

James A. Garfield

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Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450 Votes: 3

Lauren Oliver

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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes. Votes: 3

Havelock Ellis

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Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. Votes: 3

Carol Lynn Pearson

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Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. Votes: 3

Margaret Atwood

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Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently. Votes: 3

Cus D'Amato

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Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them. Votes: 3

Amit Kalantri

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Heroes make us smile because they not only rescue us outwardly, but inwardly too. Votes: 3

Richelle E. Goodrich

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Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life. Votes: 3

Judd Nelson

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Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had. Votes: 3

Zachary Quinto

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Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact... Votes: 3

David Eddings

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Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. Votes: 3

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart. Votes: 3

Eric Ludy

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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal. Votes: 3

Irena Sendler

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Heroes show us courage, honor, integrity and strength. Now more than ever, we need heroes. Votes: 3

John Patrick Hickey

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Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them. Votes: 3

Nancy Farmer

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Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect to fulfill your dream. Votes: 3

Peter McWilliams

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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. Votes: 3

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves. Votes: 3

Vanessa Carlton

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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats. Votes: 3

Mahatma Gandhi

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Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero. Votes: 3

James Belushi

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Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear Votes: 3

Anthony Trollope

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We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say? Votes: 3

David Bowie

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Heroes give hope. Votes: 2

Amit Kalantri

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Heroes admire heroes. Votes: 2

Tomichan Matheikal

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My heroes were always soccer players. Votes: 2

Ronaldinho

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. Votes: 2

H. L. Mencken

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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan. Votes: 2

Ted Cruz

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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. Votes: 2

Benjamin Disraeli

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We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. Votes: 2

Helen Hayes

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James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like. Votes: 2

Pierce Brosnan

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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. Votes: 2

George R. R. Martin

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My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional. Votes: 2

Mark McKinnon

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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. Votes: 2

Bono

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Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed. Votes: 2

Bob Riley

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My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces. Votes: 2

Sidney Sheldon

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Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history. Votes: 2

Katharine Lee Bates

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It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable. Votes: 2

Barry Ritholtz

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We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day. Votes: 2

Brad Meltzer

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I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. Votes: 2

Kevin Costner

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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Votes: 2

Bette Davis

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I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero. Votes: 2

Young Jeezy

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To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too. Votes: 2

Rick Riordan

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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting. Votes: 2

Barbara Mertz

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My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers. Votes: 2

Dylan O'Brien

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Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity. Votes: 2

Ricky Martin

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The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party. Votes: 2

Tammy Bruce

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I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.' Votes: 2

Emmanuelle Chriqui

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I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero. Votes: 2

Philip Zimbardo

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Adversity creates heroes. Votes: 0

Picabo Street

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Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Crowds speak in heroes. Votes: 0

Gerald Stanley Lee

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Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes. Votes: 0

Leeza Gibbons

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Bullfighters are Seville's heroes. Votes: 0

Paz Vega

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Troops of heroes undistinguished die. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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The Yankees have twenty-five heroes. Votes: 0

Derek Jeter

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Only bad generals need heroes. Votes: 0

Bertolt Brecht

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I'm bad at picking heroes. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. Votes: 0

Daniel J. Boorstin

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Through adversity we find our heroes... Votes: 0

Steve Gleason

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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes! Votes: 0

Bertolt Brecht

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Celluloid heroes never feel any pain. Votes: 0

Ray Davies

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A nation without heroes is nothing. Votes: 0

Roberto Clemente

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Necessity makes heroes of us all. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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All heroes are shadows of Christ Votes: 0

John Piper

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All our best heroes are losers Votes: 0

Richard Glover

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Don't dare try to be heroes. Votes: 0

S.A. Tawks

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There are no heroes in chess. Votes: 0

Corry Evans

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Tales of heroes end in bliss. Votes: 0

Tanith Lee

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My heroes used to be cowboys. Votes: 0

David Foreman

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For some heroes, nothing is impossible Votes: 0

Alethea Kontis

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The earth is enjoyed by heroes Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes. Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith

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My real heroes have always been sportswriters. Votes: 0

Dan Jenkins

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If negative meant positive we'd be heroes. Votes: 0

Daniel Johns

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All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel. Votes: 0

Jo Nesbo

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Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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Children of heroes have glory for breakfast. Votes: 0

William Edgar

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It's not just children who need heroes. Votes: 0

Tamora Pierce

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The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. Votes: 0

Graham Greene

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The gods need heroes. They always have. Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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All my big heroes are literary, writers. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel. Votes: 0

Jo Nesbo

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A society manufactures the heroes it requires. Votes: 0

Colson Whitehead

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Be heroes in an army of construction. Votes: 0

Helen Keller

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It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. Votes: 0

Louis Pasteur

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My heroes were all in the theatre. Votes: 0

Damian Lewis

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I had both male and female heroes. Votes: 0

Sally Ride

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The law has no power over heroes. Votes: 0

Charlotte Lennox

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Dean Martin is one of my heroes. Votes: 0

Joe Mantegna

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Tina Fey is one of my heroes. Votes: 0

Aubrey Plaza

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But are they heroes or mere dreamers? Votes: 0

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

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Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated. Votes: 0

Peter Capaldi

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But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes. Votes: 0

David Baldacci

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Cinema is much more than heroes and villains. Votes: 0

Anurag Kashyap

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History is written by those who hang heroes. Votes: 0

Robert the Bruce

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Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. Votes: 0

Moby

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Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes. Votes: 0

Peter Berg

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Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. Votes: 0

Bill Vaughan

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All your heroes are dead! I killed them! Votes: 0

CM Punk

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But heroes, at times, had to be fools. Votes: 0

Steve Berry

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The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. Votes: 0

Thomas Guthrie

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We are all heroes of our little worlds Votes: 0

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Too many heroes in my life. All gone. Votes: 0

Tatjana Soli

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Long ago I left heroics to the heroes Votes: 0

Peter Weiss

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Joe Louis was one of my first heroes. Votes: 0

Robert Goulet

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Great battles can make great heroes and heroines. Votes: 0

Ezra Taft Benson

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Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places. Votes: 0

Ann Aguirre

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Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow. Votes: 0

Wayne Thomas Batson

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The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me. Votes: 0

T. J. Oshie

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When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes. Votes: 0

Andrew Solomon

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Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith. Votes: 0

John Gresham Machen

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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. Votes: 0

Bertolt Brecht

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Your heroes will help you find good in yourself. Votes: 0

Randy Travis

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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no. Votes: 0

Rafael Nadal

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You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday. Votes: 0

Miep Gies

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There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. Votes: 0

Charles Kuralt

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There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults. Votes: 0

Laura Dern

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Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps Votes: 0

Chuck D

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In the face of pain there are no heroes. Votes: 0

George Orwell

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It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes. Votes: 0

Lajos Kossuth

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Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture. Votes: 0

Mike Colter

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Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them. Votes: 0

Edward Dunlop

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Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones. Votes: 0

Stephen Ambrose

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I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. Votes: 0

GG Allin

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All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure. Votes: 0

Peter Carey

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There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers. Votes: 0

Roland Barthes

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I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal. Votes: 0

Norman Spinrad

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Future strong is filled with disruptive heroes. Are you one? Votes: 0

Bill Jensen

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Every generation, including mine, has to find their own heroes. Votes: 0

Sylvester Stallone

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Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes. Votes: 0

Liza M. Wiemer

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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes. Votes: 0

Clarence Darrow

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People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life. Votes: 0

Vittorio Grigolo

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All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today. Votes: 0

Yip Harburg

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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes. Votes: 0

Warren Buffett

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Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes. Votes: 0

Qiu Jin

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes. Votes: 0

Kate Winslet

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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If we could be heroes, if just for one day. Votes: 0

David Bowie

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We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes. Votes: 0

Joss Whedon

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The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business. Votes: 0

Brent Sexton

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All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots. Votes: 0

Marcus Luttrell

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If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow. Votes: 0

Robert Duvall

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Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz's unsung heroes Votes: 0

Harvey Pekar

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There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community Votes: 0

David Riesman

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We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday. Votes: 0

Gerard Houllier

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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them. Votes: 0

Wilbur Smith

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Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth. Votes: 0

Tommy Lasorda

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Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne. Votes: 0

Johnny Ramone

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes. Votes: 0

Ken Salazar

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The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes. Votes: 0

Mercedes Lackey

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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes. Votes: 0

Warren Buffett

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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on. Votes: 0

Heinrich Heine

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Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Votes: 0

Ned Rorem

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I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes. Votes: 0

Maria Thayer

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If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight? Votes: 0

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There are no heroes in a world where heroes can't die. Votes: 0

Travis Beacham

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There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street. Votes: 0

Wael Ghonim

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I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. Votes: 0

Joss Whedon

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No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them. Votes: 0

T. J. Oshie

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I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell - they're my heroes. Votes: 0

Daniel Radcliffe

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In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets. Votes: 0

Steven Weinberg

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Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones. Votes: 0

Graham Moore

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We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human. Votes: 0

Frances Hardinge

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There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes. Votes: 0

Pink

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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes. Votes: 0

Joseph Stalin

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Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today. Votes: 0

Jean-Claude Juncker

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Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes. Votes: 0

Rhianna Pratchett

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Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes. Votes: 0

Margaret J. Wheatley

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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. Votes: 0

Sarah Orne Jewett

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The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. Votes: 0

Bruce Springsteen

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Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying. Votes: 0

David Benioff

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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals. Votes: 0

Waylon Jennings

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Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me! Votes: 0

Bruce Wilkinson

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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths. Votes: 0

Ken Kesey

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My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen

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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes. Votes: 0

Tamora Pierce

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Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous! Votes: 0

William Dean Howells

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A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them. Votes: 0

John Irving

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Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am. Votes: 0

Jason Reitman

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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves. Votes: 0

Jack Gleeson

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My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca. Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen

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It's hard to renounce heroes unless you have one to start with. Votes: 0

Joseph Bottum

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Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius. Votes: 0

Tracy Morgan

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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes. Votes: 0

Brian Moore

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When heroes fall from the sky, many more will learn to fly. Votes: 0

Tony Meloto

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My mama didn't raise any fools and she didn't raise any heroes. Votes: 0

Amanda Hocking

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Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays. Votes: 0

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

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To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles. Votes: 0

Ira Hayes

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I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes. Votes: 0

James Garner

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The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. Votes: 0

Charles Olson

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I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. Votes: 0

Brad Bird

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Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. Votes: 0

Meridel Le Sueur

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There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Hoyt

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We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. Votes: 0

Noam Chomsky

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Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes. Votes: 0

Jeremy Brett

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Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated. Votes: 0

Sherman Alexie

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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes. Votes: 0

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes. Votes: 0

Cathy Rigby

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We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas Votes: 0

Avram Noam Chomsky

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We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to. Votes: 0

Stacie Orrico

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Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do. Votes: 0

Robert Jordan

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God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers. Votes: 0

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives. Votes: 0

Tom Hiddleston

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I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes. Votes: 0

Barry Pepper

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You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. Votes: 0

Dave Winfield

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Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest. Votes: 0

Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle

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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. Votes: 0

Peter S. Beagle

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I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre. Votes: 0

Julie Walters

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Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . Votes: 0

George Eliot

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I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity. Votes: 0

Jordin Sparks

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden Votes: 0

S. E. Hinton

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For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV. Votes: 0

Sean Maguire

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Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians. Votes: 0

Andy Biersack

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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution. Votes: 0

Barry Ritholtz

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Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. Votes: 0

Chris Hemsworth

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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours. Votes: 0

Adam Baldwin

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Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes. Votes: 0

Tom Harkin

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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes. Votes: 0

Pushpa Rana

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All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema. Votes: 0

Marilyn Manson

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. Votes: 0

Abigail Adams

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Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources. Votes: 0

Brian Herbert

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Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them. Votes: 0

Masashi Kishimoto

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I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people. Votes: 0

Anson Mount

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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. Votes: 0

Adam Phillips

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There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes Votes: 0

David Paul

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Our stories are not new; yet, in the retelling we are reborn as heroes. Votes: 0

Harley King

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Hard to accept the end of a story that won the villain against heroes. Votes: 0

Toba Beta

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Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind. Votes: 0

Rebecca Goldstein

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Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up Votes: 0

Warren Buffett

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There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes Votes: 0

David Paul Kirkpatrick

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One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. Votes: 0

Walter Isaacson

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There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes. Votes: 0

Jerry Stahl

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up. Votes: 0

Mary Ruefle

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I wanted to be like my heroes, but I also wanted to be me. Votes: 0

Michael Angelo Batio

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We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives. Votes: 0

James Ellis

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They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes Votes: 0

George Lucas

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At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds Votes: 0

Dr. V. V. Rao

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Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains. Votes: 0

Jessica Hagedorn

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Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death. Votes: 0

Dorothy Norman

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Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. Votes: 0

David Lloyd George

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You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are. Votes: 0

Steve Jobs

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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. Votes: 0

Keith Richards

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[ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years. Votes: 0

Oliver D. Crisp

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What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus. Votes: 0

Scot McKnight

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I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero. Votes: 0

Joel McCrea

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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.' Votes: 0

Dalia Mogahed

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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. Votes: 0

Andrew Young

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I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton. Votes: 0

Walter Isaacson

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People are not born heroes or villains; theyâre created by the people around them. Votes: 0

Chris Colfer

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I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David. Votes: 0

Luke Ford

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Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs. Votes: 0

Pam Brown

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I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't. Votes: 0

Mike Royer

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If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes. Votes: 0

Guy Kawasaki

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Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes. Votes: 0

Tom Hiddleston

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I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow. Votes: 0

Riley Keough

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We choose and make our heroes from what we have read, heard and believed in. Votes: 0

Pushpa Rana

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All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes. Votes: 0

Jennifer McMahon

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Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict. Votes: 0

Wayne Allard

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Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes. Votes: 0

Tim Heidecker

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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great. Votes: 0

David Gemmell

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They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians Votes: 0

Norman Finkelstein

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Fans want heroes. They're bored. They want a hero and want to follow that guy. Votes: 0

Jon Fitch

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A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.... Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. Votes: 0

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it. Votes: 0

Josh McDowell

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Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them. Votes: 0

Steven Pressfield

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People watch the Olympics because they want to believe in heroes; I know I did. Votes: 0

Mikaela Shiffrin

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The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win. Votes: 0

Jean-Michel Charlier

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There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away. Votes: 0

Charisma Carpenter

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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. Votes: 0

Bernard Malamud

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It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself. Votes: 0

John Mayer

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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization. Votes: 0

Anita Roddick

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Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents. Votes: 0

Francine du Plessix Gray

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Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.' Votes: 0

Caitlin Moran

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I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work. Votes: 0

Drew Goddard

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History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. Votes: 0

James F. Cooper

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History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. Votes: 0

James Fenimore Cooper

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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples. Votes: 0

Tertullian

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History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. Votes: 0

Ian Fleming

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History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. Votes: 0

Ian Fleming

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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. Votes: 0

Ellis Peters

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Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along. Votes: 0

Brandon Sanderson

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Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes. Votes: 0

Bernard Marcus

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When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock Votes: 0

John B. Keane

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Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Votes: 0

Margaret Mitchell

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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes Votes: 0

Nikki Giovanni

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If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past. Votes: 0

Harry Crocker

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life. Votes: 0

Brian Rathbone

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It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes. Votes: 0

Richard Donner

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My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes. Votes: 0

Michael Jordan

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I like horror; I like comedy; I like drama; I like action; I like female heroes. Votes: 0

Joss Whedon

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I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long. Votes: 0

Michelle Shocked

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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. Votes: 0

James D. Watson

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We donât need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling. Votes: 0

Banksy

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In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. Votes: 0

Elbert Hubbard

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Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. Votes: 0

Joseph Hopkinson

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Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete; because they are not heroes yet. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. Votes: 0

Wilson Mizner

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I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life." Votes: 0

Matthias Schoenaerts

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We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had. Votes: 0

Marco Tempest

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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith. Votes: 0

Francis Chan

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My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn. Votes: 0

Walton Goggins

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I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs Votes: 0

Mary Higgins Clark

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I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth. Votes: 0

Jeffery Deaver

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I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life. Votes: 0

Matthias Schoenaerts

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I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. Votes: 0

Simon Van Booy

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Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes. Votes: 0

Carl Crawford

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Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up. Votes: 0

Sylvester Stallone

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From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. Votes: 0

Marilyn Manson

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Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle. Votes: 0

William Shatner

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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Votes: 0

William Manchester

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Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar. Votes: 0

Kirk Hammett

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The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by. Votes: 0

Richard Attenborough

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Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often. Votes: 0

Karen Marie Moning

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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know. Votes: 0

Agnes de Mille

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I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that. Votes: 0

John Rhys-Davies

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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Votes: 0

Jim Walsh

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I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. Votes: 0

Jim Morrison

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Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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Courage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do! Votes: 0

D.C. Akers

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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. Votes: 0

Libba Bray

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I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor. Votes: 0

Peter Segal

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The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Votes: 0

Brooke Westcott

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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. Votes: 0

Nina Simone

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The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes. Votes: 0

Carl Jung

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Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no. Votes: 0

Jethro Tull

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Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! Votes: 0

Helen Keller

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I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. Votes: 0

George Eads

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At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. Votes: 0

Jimmy Carter

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On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. Votes: 0

Ken Thompson

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The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism. Votes: 0

Betty Dodson

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We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles. Votes: 0

Molly Ringwald

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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it. Votes: 0

Jerry Bruckheimer

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Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you. Votes: 0

Gale Harold

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Someday when we're older, we'll learn who to trust. But heroes and saviors, can't save folks like us. Votes: 0

Kevin Dalton

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War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. Votes: 0

Mary Horlock

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Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive. Votes: 0

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

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The 'Love Undercover' series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes. Votes: 0

Lori Foster

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It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do. Votes: 0

Anita Baker

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Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters. Votes: 0

Willie Stargell

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Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. Votes: 0

Natalie Clifford Barney

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Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes. Votes: 0

Patrick Rothfuss

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I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes. Votes: 0

Philip Kerr

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Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special. Votes: 0

Brett Lee

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People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites. Votes: 0

Kadir Nelson

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In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys. Votes: 0

Michael Steinhardt

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The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes. Votes: 0

Lori Foster

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These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. Votes: 0

Henrik Ibsen

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney. Votes: 0

Dave Koz

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Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed. Votes: 0

Bob Riley

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Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes. Votes: 0

Lech Walesa

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All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes. Votes: 0

Leo Tolstoy

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I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise. Votes: 0

Giles Duley

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The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars. Votes: 0

Huey Newton

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There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me. Votes: 0

J. R. Martinez

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I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future. Votes: 0

Kevin Feige

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I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes. Votes: 0

Jonah Hill

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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. Votes: 0

Paul Watson

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One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there! Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten. Votes: 0

Jim Ramstad

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Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. Votes: 0

Jomo Kenyatta

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My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me. Votes: 0

Derek Jeter

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Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels. Votes: 0

Norman Thomas

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He and his brothers were heroes at heart - even if they were all bad boy on the outside Votes: 0

Anne Marsh

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Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes. Votes: 0

Robert the Bruce

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You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them. Votes: 0

Dave Grohl

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Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics. Votes: 0

Donna Brazile

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A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero. Votes: 0

Kieran Bew

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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures. Votes: 0

Alan Hirsch

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A world without braves is a world without heroes, but a world without wisdom is a world of animals. Votes: 0

M.F. Moonzajer

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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble. Votes: 0

Ruth Glick

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Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true. Votes: 0

Tatiana Maslany

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Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path. Votes: 0

Nancy Duarte

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We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs. Votes: 0

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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Ive been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction. Votes: 0

Sylvia Day

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I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction. Votes: 0

Sylvia Day

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Without war there are no heroes.What harm would that be?Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals. Votes: 0

Luke Evans

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A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own. Votes: 0

Scott Snyder

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We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told. Votes: 0

Chris Wooding

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And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by. Votes: 0

Richard Attenborough

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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods). Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else. Votes: 0

Gene Simmons

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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team. Votes: 0

Cass McCombs

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However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us. Votes: 0

James Rozoff

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Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes. Votes: 0

Blake Shelton

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It is an extraordinary thing to meet your heroes and find them to be everything you hoped they would be. Votes: 0

Simon Pegg

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Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us. Votes: 0

Bobby Seale

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To those of you who are leading LifeGroups, I want you to know, you are the heroes of our mission. Votes: 0

Craig Groeschel

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Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth. Votes: 0

Mitt Romney

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The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious. Votes: 0

Julius Evola

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I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes. Votes: 0

Rain

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Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away. Votes: 0

Michael Grant

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With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work. Votes: 0

Phil Keoghan

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When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them. Votes: 0

Virginia Madsen

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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. Votes: 0

Laura Dern

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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films. Votes: 0

Jackie Chan

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. Votes: 0

Plato

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Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The earth is enjoyed by heroes"this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. Votes: 0

Warren Buffett

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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that Votes: 0

Laura Dern

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There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.(King Pelles the Sure) Votes: 0

Peter S. Beagle

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It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes. Votes: 0

Robert Novak

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I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older. Votes: 0

Frank Shorter

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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. Itâs not just the guy with gunsâitâs the guy with brains. Votes: 0

Benedict Cumberbatch

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Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps Votes: 0

Chuck D

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It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes. Votes: 0

Dennis Christopher

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For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes. Votes: 0

Moby

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I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives. Votes: 0

Boris Becker

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Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives. Votes: 0

Jesse Eisenberg

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We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. Votes: 0

Steve Jobs

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When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America. Votes: 0

Bernie Sanders

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I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her. Votes: 0

Cheech Marin

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Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead. Votes: 0

Will Carleton

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We can be heroes just for one day Votes: 0

David Bowie Heroes

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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.

Billie Jean King

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I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

Jerry Robinson

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We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

Nizar Qabbani

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Lil Wayne, who is actually responsible for my career has always been a huge influence to me and one of my heroes.

Drake

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I want to be a children's hero"¦ Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

Geoffrey Canada

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We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Lord Chesterfield

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We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Walton Goggins

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There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

Katherine Mansfield

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We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

Shin Kyung-sook

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The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

Sidney Hook

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The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

Tess Gerritsen

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My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.

Bill Walton

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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

W. P. Kinsella

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You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.

Andy Biersack

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Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

Hunter S. Thompson

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All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

Jean Vanier

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It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.

Jefferson Davis

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I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.

Pythagoras

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It didn't matter the quality of the writing Callie's fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

Sarah MacLean

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My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

Frederick Busch

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I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

Mike Vallely

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I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

Tim Burton

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Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

Hal Boyle

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The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

John Adams

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Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

John Oliver

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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Mark Twain

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I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

Terry Pratchett

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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Warren G. Bennis

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I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side.

Hayden Panettiere

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You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes

Warren Buffett

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Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

William Shatner

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God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

Anatole Broyard

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Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

Gail Simone

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Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

Robert D. Putnam

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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

Samuel Johnson

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The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.

Peter H. Reynolds

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Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

Swami Vivekananda

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So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

Alan Seeger

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

George Bernard Shaw

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

Richard Attenborough

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O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

Rudyard Kipling

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He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

Steve Earle

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Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

Chuck Palahniuk

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We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

Carice van Houten

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... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

Tom Brady

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The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.

Woody Allen

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I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

Jenny Eclair

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We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

Anne Rice

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Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.

Arnold Hano

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Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.

Cressida Cowell

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Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

John Nolte

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The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Robert Brustein

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No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

Terry Pratchett

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Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.

Wilfrid Sheed

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Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Boris Becker

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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

Ed Helms

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A few more albums, a few more years, I'll be like Peter Petrelli in Heroes. I'll be some type of rap super-monster or something.

Joe Budden

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The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

Mao Zedong

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There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

Max Lerner

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Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

Peter S. Beagle

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And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

Robert Cormier

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Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

Carson McCullers

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My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.

Aeriel Miranda

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I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

Megan Chance

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The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Sergei Polunin

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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

T. S. Eliot

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Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

John Lancaster Spalding

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There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

Bonnie Raitt

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I've begun my career working with older heroes. The people I had been fan of, I now work with them. It's a great opportunity for me.

Nayantara

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If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Siegfried Sassoon

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We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.

Ellen Goodman

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Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

Ned Rorem

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Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

Charlie Sheen

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Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done

Meg Cabot

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I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

Renny Harlin

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Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.

Naoki Higashida

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Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming.

Ray Mancini

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Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince.

Shania Twain

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I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

Alfred de Vigny

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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

Naguib Mahfouz

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There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren't the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the country we love.

Tony Meloto

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We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think itâs easier to fight than it is to heal.

Ann Aguirre

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Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.

J. Michael Straczynski

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Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

Stephen Leacock

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Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

Veronica Roth

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But even in your world itâs a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any oddsâ¦ get a Mother.

Diane Duane

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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Now I'm running against a woman who, my God, that's all she talks about. Our true heroes, it's the last thing in the world they talk about.

Joe Walsh

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They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

Johnny Depp

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Heroes like you always have a weak spot. We just have to find it, and then we can kill you. Won't that be lovely? Have a cheese 'n' Wiener!

Rick Riordan

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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas.... In truth, they are heroes of our time.

Ai Weiwei

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I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas.

Ozzie Newsome

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We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

John F. Kerry

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If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

Baal Shem Tov

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That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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If you do something extraordinary for your customer you will never be forgotten. Customer service heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Eric Lander

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My heroes among filmmakers would be people like BuÃ±uel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.

Peter Greenaway

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Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Philip Zimbardo

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Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

Salvador Dali

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The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

Alan Lomax

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Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

Bei Dao

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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.

Jack Reynor

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In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others.

Kevin Sorbo

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Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

Mark Twain

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Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

Patricia Briggs

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I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

Patrick Stump

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There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

Aaron Hill

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the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions

Frank O'Hara

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I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he'd sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.

Rick Riordan

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Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

Louise Penny

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Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

Patricia C. Wrede

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I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes.

Edmund Hillary

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Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

Adrian Younge

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Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

Andrew Vachss

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I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

Darren Shan

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The Bible just said "Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

John Marsden

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The Bible isn't a storybook with many heroes. No, there's only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer - Jesus.

Paul David Tripp

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The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.

Joan D. Chittister

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Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

Kevin Costner

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I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Robert Sheckley

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We don't need wings to be angels We don't need reasons to be right Your love makes us all better That who we really are Angels and heroes at heart

Brian Littrell

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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

George Orwell

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Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Martha Gellhorn

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I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

Robert Sheckley

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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

Christopher Dawson

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Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

George William Curtis

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The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

Mercedes Lackey

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Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

Nelson Mandela

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Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.

Georgy Zhukov

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I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

Howard Schultz

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God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.

A. B. Simpson

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No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.

Robert Browning

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We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

Tom Hiddleston

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America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

Gunnar Myrdal

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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Herodotus

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Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero.

Rick Riordan

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Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.

Jennifer E. Smith

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I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

Johnny Depp

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Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.

Dick Costolo

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What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Edward Abbey

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Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.

David Gemmell

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One of the problems of other MMOs combat is that you often have scenarios where you have multiple heroes beating on a single enemy. That just isn't very Heroic

James Ohlen

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That is again a romantic notion: the hero. I think people enjoy a much more levelled playing field where you have the ability for many people to become heroes.

Martin Sorrell

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Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

Rosario Ferre

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It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

Swami Vivekananda

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Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

Christopher Walken

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....What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come.

Joey Reiman

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KGBeast starts chasing our heroes in a big way, and you get the return of an old character from the mythology that I think people will be really excited to see.

Scott Snyder

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Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

George R. R. Martin

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I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

Annie E. Clark

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Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.

Anna Quindlen

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We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

John Updike

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When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

Morgan Neville

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I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

W. Earl Brown

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We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

Mark Twain

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He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

Nora Roberts

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I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.

John Leguizamo

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Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

Bruce Cockburn

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To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.

Howard Zinn

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As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.

Jimmy Buffett

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An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

E. M. Forster

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Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

Francis Picabia

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Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

Germaine Greer

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Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.

Jimenez Lai

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We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

Annie Lennox

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I didn't care"¦about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

Homer Hickam

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Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .

Robert Heilbroner

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My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

Dick Vitale

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Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

Doug Phillips

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We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

John Henrik Clarke

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These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

Ronald Reagan

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... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

Albert Einstein

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There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

Bob Dylan

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A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.

Joseph Addison

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Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.

Robert Redford

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Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

Roger Delano Hinkins

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Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

Terry Pratchett

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I walked past Noel Gallagher on the street once and everyone was like, "Go speak to him! He's one of your heroes!" I thought I'd leave him. I don't know what I'd say to him.

Iwan Rheon

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Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

Juvenal

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I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

Bob Feller

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Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.

Cassandra Clare

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Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

John Dufresne

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Some people that are heroes to some can be looked at by another group of people as villains. As far as a middle point, just speaking for myself, that's exactly what to avoid.

Jon Bernthal

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I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

Max Roach

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We are marking the anniversary of the Arctic convoys.We really do consider members of the Arctic convoy to be heroes. This is true. I am not saying this as a fashion of speech.

Vladimir Putin

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I guess what we know about the Avengers is there's a reason why all of the heroes that we've been meeting, from Thor to Captain America - everybody - they need to work together.

Clark Gregg

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In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men (and women) of flesh and blood.

Richard M. Nixon

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My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. Thats where the spirit of the armed forces is.

Bob Ainsworth

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The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

William Friedkin

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Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

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The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

Mao Zedong

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There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.

Robert Longo

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Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

Felix Frankfurter

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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature â all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you'll find out how big a prize you've won.

Twyla Tharp

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I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example.

John Assaraf

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If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It's also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people.

Seth Rogen

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Where is [Ariel] Sharon who, planning to be one of the big heroes of Israel, became one of the killers, criminals, killing our small kids in Sabra and Chatila. Where is Alexander Haig?

Yasser Arafat

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Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny,

Emilie Schindler

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An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.

Robert E Lane

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Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren't really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

Maggie Stiefvater

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Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

N.D. Wilson

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Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

Frederick William Robertson

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Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

Yiyun Li

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Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

Bobby Bonilla

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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

E. L. James

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Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

Loudon Wainwright III

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Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.

Rick Joyner

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Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

Paul Valery

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Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

Henry Fielding

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If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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Humanity is a community, I don't care if your black, your white, your Christian, your Jewish, your Muslim. We are all one community and heroes really make us see what's possible at any given time.

John Assaraf

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I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow

Simone Elkeles

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I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

David Hasselhoff

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It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.

Walter Lippmann

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Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

Abram Joseph Ryan

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As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

Bernard Beckett

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Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.

Florence King

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A propagandized population has a hard time choosing worthy heroes. It is high time Americans celebrate the Anti-Federalists, for they were correct in predicting the fate of freedom after Philadelphia.

Ilana Mercer

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With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.

Erik Qualman

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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.

Queen Noor of Jordan

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[J.F.Kennedy] is an iconic figure. And to make it even worse, he's a hero of mine. And every actor will tell you that you can't play heroes. And you can't play villains. You can only play human beings.

Rob Lowe

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Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces

Virgil

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The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.

Andrew Williams

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The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.

Frank Miller

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If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.

Gao Xingjian

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I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.

Jeanette Winterson

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He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

Neil Gaiman

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Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.

Rebecca Solnit

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Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

Gore Vidal

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Those of us who follow Jesus Christ must seriously commit to praying for our leaders, never forgetting that even our greatest heroes are flawed individuals who need Jesus Christ, just like the rest of us.

Jonathan Falwell

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I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.

Stan Lee

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I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.

Dustin Lance Black

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The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

Henry David Thoreau

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Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

Oliver North

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I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

Anton Chekhov

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As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed on and were shot down by reserves at the guns. It was not war, it was murder.

Daniel Harvey Hill

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The student may read Homer or ÃÃ¢" schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

Henry David Thoreau

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Growing up I used to ... one of my heroes growing up was President John F. Kennedy. And I actually have a memory box from when I was a little where I saved articles about President Kennedy. He was a real hero.

Mike Pence

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We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.

Vince Lombardi

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I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk directly through adversity with love and ardent resolve.

Daniel Gillies

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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and SÃ©rbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

George Bernard Shaw

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In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

Max Lerner

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When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?

Zach Braff

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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.

Akira Kurosawa

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There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.

Henry Miller

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No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

Jon Ronson

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I don't have individuals that are heroes per say but I will suggest that teachers are heroes for me, our firefighters are heroes for me, our police departments are heroes for me and our leaders are heroes for me.

John Assaraf

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Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

Johnny Carson

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I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!

Suzanne Brockmann

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The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

Thomas Carlyle

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Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be clichÃ© to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

George Eads

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Shame, isn't it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are "spit and polished,' and not when they're showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.

Jacqueline Winspear

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Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

Frank Herbert

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The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.

Lindi Ortega

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I would dream of being a pro skater, but I never dreamt I'd be discovered by Lance Mountain and Stacey Peralta, who were two major heroes of mine, and be asked to skate for that team and be a part of their company.

Mike Vallely

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As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

Prince

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I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.

Black Francis

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I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero.

Bruce Campbell

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I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

Siobhan Fahey

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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

Victor Hugo

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.

Brooke Westcott

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I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.

Paul Reed Smith

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We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.

James Franco

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When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.

Lavinia Milosovici

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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

Viola Davis

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When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it." Then you feel, "I can do it too."

John Leguizamo

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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I didn't and don't want to be a "feminine' version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.