Hero Quotes - Page 16

• My dad was my hero, my best friend.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, My Best Friend, My Hero

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• Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.

  Jonas Armstrong

  Hands, Robins, Calling The Shots

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

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• J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houstons newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.

  Hannah Storm

  Sports, Friday, Football

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

  Jerry Robinson

  Interesting, Exotic, Dull

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• Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

  Stephen Frears

  Judgement, Risk, Important

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• Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Mean, Men

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• In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

  Chris Lilley

  Australia, Comedy, Intention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

  Chris Lilley

  Character, Television, Excited

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

  Sarah MacLean

  Real, Love Life, Love Is

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• The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Views, Cities

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• ... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.

  Lester Bangs

  Hate, Thinking, Nihilism

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• As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

  Vijender Singh

  Thinking, Guy, Bollywood

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• Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Mean, Self, People

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• In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Vocabulary, Greek, India

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• The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.

  Jay Leno

  War, Mean, Records

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• To see cartoon-me positioned (alphabetically) amongst so many of my women heroes and role models ... well, I just broke down and cried. Happy tears. I surely hope that this one-of-a-kind collection of radical American women reaches the hands of all children who want to grow up and become amazing women.

  Kate Bornstein

  Children, Growing Up, Hands

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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

  Writing, Intelligent, Men

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• A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

  Peter Temple

  Writing, Personality, Lazy

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• It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Gentleman, Easier

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• For me, my dad is the best hero in the universe.

  Yoseob

  Dad, My Dad, Universe

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• Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero

  Nev Schulman

  Domestic Violence, Might, Hey

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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

  Giving Up, Real, Smoking

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• I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."

  Robert Orben

  Couple, Night, Hands

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• Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

  Melanie

  Rohan, Beloved, Ifs

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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

  Reason, Beats, My Hero

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