Hero Quotes - Page 13

• Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Children, Parent, Lovers

  Francine du Plessix Gray (1983). “World Without End”, Playboy Mass Market Paperbacks

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• Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.

  James Vila Blake

  Stars, Struggle, Voice

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• Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.

  African Spir

  Sacrifice, Men, Views

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.

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• Nowhere Man embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. Its really near and dear to my heart.

  Ruth Glick

  Heart, Men, My Favorite

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

  Ruth Glick

  Moving, Able, Trouble

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• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  Jack Gleeson

  Needs, Belief, Villain

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

  Peter Capaldi

  Real, Real Heroes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Character, Done, Comedic

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.

  Jessica Chastain

  Dad, Real, Men

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• My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

  Brian Dennehy

  Stars, Real, Guy

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Nurse, Gossip

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• The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Loss, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

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• Goal achievement is hero's work.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Goal, Accomplishment

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• My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Two, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so Id love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Real, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always makes me laugh. Amis has managed to create a world that is both funny and abrasive. I'd love to play John Self, the depraved hero, who's without illusions, he created.

  Robert Pattinson

  Self, Play, Laughing

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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

  People, Care, Film

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• My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.

  Michael Ian Black

  Growing Up, Mind Blowing, Wonder Woman

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any stage. I was deeply honored to call him a friend and will always remember the time I got to spend with him. The music world has lost one of our greatest treasures. Rest in peace, my little friend. You were loved by so many of us!

  Charlie Daniels

  Rest In Peace, Greatest Treasure, Lost Ones

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• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  Nathan Gamble

  Real, Hard Work, People

  "A Conversation with Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Nathan Gamble of 'Dolphin Tale'". Interview with Paula K. Parker, www.catholic.org. September 20, 2011.

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• It doesnt matter about money and fame and whatever. I really dont care about that. My thing is, Im happy that Im able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Kids, Dont Care, Looks

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• I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

  Martin Scorsese

  Talking, Trends, Way

  "Scorsese, DiCaprio, and Hill Talk WOLF OF WALL STREET; Says It's Done with 'a Great Sense of Sadistic Humor'" by Matt Goldberg, collider.com. October 11, 2013.

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• As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Lying, Roots, Looks

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. V, 1938.

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• Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes - eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them. In turning them all into heroes, we have lost a sense of the individuality they also fight to preserve.

  Elizabeth Samet

  War, Fighting, Sacrifice

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