Hero Quotes - Page 24

• 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

  Kids, Parent, Break

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Water, Important, Forget

  Bonefish on the Brain Interview, bonefishonthebrain.com. May 4, 2010.

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• The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Causes, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Want, Form

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• I grew up in a household with two brothers and we lived in the bush. We were constantly building weapons and forts and things. But I didn't set out to be an action hero.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Brother, Two, Weapons

  "Chris Hemsworth" by William Van Meter, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 18, 2011.

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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

  Heart, Long, Role Models

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• When I was young, I saw a lot of martial arts films with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. I loved them. They are my heroes but, I'm so powerful, I'm so faster. I'm so young and so handsome like a model. I really loved them so they are my role models.

  Rain

  Art, Powerful, Role Models

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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

  Athlete, People, Billions

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

  George Jean Nathan

  Believe, Theatre, Villain

  Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan (1929). “The American Mercury”

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• Every generation has to find their own heroes.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Generations, Mines, Including

  Source: www.viewlondon.co.uk

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• A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

  Marianne Williamson

  Passion, Community, Consciousness

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Country, Song, Appreciation

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.263, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

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• I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious again and really think about what their four fathers were like. As African-Americans, we are resilient, we are some bad mf-ers, and we are survivors. So get those i-pods out of their ears and become heroes again like the Freedom Riders.

  Lee Daniels

  Father, Kids, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.

  Philip Pullman

  Stories, Done, Facts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Communication, People

  Interview with Peter Bebergal, believermag.com. June 1, 2013.

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• Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.

  Frank Wilczek

  Inspiration, Looks, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

  Jimmy Jean-Louis

  Black, Hollywood, Done

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Teachers have been heroes to me, as well as artists and writers, and I'm honored to be among their ranks. There is always a lot of grousing about the academy. I suppose it comes from our all-American anti-authoritarianism.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Teacher, Artist, Wells

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

  Kit Williamson

  Character, Men, Self

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.

  Rafael van der Vaart

  Sleep, Idols, Games

  The Soccer Bible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.

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

  Kadir Nelson

  Book, Character, Kids

  "Kadir Nelson: In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks.net interview at California studio in San Diego County, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

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• Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

  Brett Dennen

  Tickets, Kind, Absolutes

  Source: renownedforsound.com

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

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Males, Needs, Videogame

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I would rather portray the hero, if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Robin Hood."

  Jonathan Jackson

  Character, Robins, Lasts

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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