Great Hero Quotes - Page 2

• Walt Disney was my great hero.

  Stanislav Grof

  Hero, Walt

  "Interviews With People Who Make A Difference : Frontiers Of The Mind". Interview with Daniel Redwood, www.healthy.net. 1995.

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• The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic.

  Cressida Cowell

  Hero, Leader, Stuff

  Cressida Cowell (2017). “How To Train Your Dragon: How to Steal a Dragon's Sword”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes sacrifice for causes; they do things that others hide from. I may not be some great hero, but I won’t hide from this. I would never live with myself.

  Brandon Mull

  Hero, Sacrifice, People

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.

  Chad Stahelski

  Stars, Hero, Character

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.

  Leonard Cohen

  Hero, Two, Yeats

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• I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board.

  Sam Worthington

  Hero, Believe, Literature

  Source: collider.com

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• Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

  Will McDonough

  Hero, Athlete, Personality

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• But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Past

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.274, New World Library

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• I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man.

  Heinrich Heine

  Hero, Men, Laughing

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

  Matthew Rhys

  Hero, People, Care

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• A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.

  Ouida

  Hero, Passion, Men

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• I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

  Maynard Jackson

  Kings, Hero, Mean

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• I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

  Peter Eisenman

  Believe, Hero, Writing

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• I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I love Dungeons & Dragons, so the opportunity to have a fantasy-based RTS, or real time strategy game, at that time, seemed cool. I started playing it, and the early games were simple, but fun and they had these great heroes.

  Duncan Jones

  Growing Up, Fun, Real

  Source: collider.com

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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

  Hero, Numbers, Feelings

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Hero, Men, Political

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• If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.

  Cleve Jones

  Hero, Gay, Law

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• How did the Turks become Muslim? They became Muslim through the Sufis. The Arabs never conquered the Turks. There were people in early Islam who were speaking like Hallaj, who spoke about the Truth, about reaching the Truth, about being one with the Truth, and not only they were not killed, but they were great heroes of their own culture, and there is a university in Turkey named after one [Sufi Saint.]

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Hero, Turkeys, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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