Hero Quotes - Page 32

• Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

  Marshall Fishwick

  Men, Mirrors, Way

  Marshall William Fishwick (1969). “The hero, American style”

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• Don't try to be a hero. Try to be a winner.

  George Brett

  Trying, Winner

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• I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Knowing, Years

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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• Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Gun, Helping Others, Skills

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

  Kevin Feige

  Book, Men, Two

  Source: screenrant.com

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• For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.

  Xavier Gens

  Character, Thinking, Important

  "‘Hitman’ Director Sets His Sights on Daredevil". Marvel Movies! Interview, screenrant.com. April 30, 2009.

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• When Kirk dies it was very emotional and very strange, in the moment and all the way through the process. I'd read it in the script and I'd always be struck by what I'd just done and what we were doing, and that this was my childhood hero and I was writing his death.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Writing, Emotional, Childhood

  Source: collider.com

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• If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Perfect, Mind, Would Be

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.131, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Soul, Fairy Tale

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.

  John Steinbeck

  Kings, Writing, Vacation

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.21, Penguin

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• It concerns me when I see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. It is teaching the small child to believe that shooting people is heroic. The hero just did it and it was effective. It was acceptable and the hero was well thought of afterward. If enough of us find inner peace to affect the institution of television, the little child will see the hero transform the villain and bring him to a good life. He'll see the hero do something significant to serve fellow human beings. So little children will get the idea that if you want to be a hero you must help people.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Good Life, Children, Teaching

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.117, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Play, Important

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• No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

  Harrison Ford

  Fake, Want, Fit

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

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• Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.

  John Wayne

  Stars, Feet, Important

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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

  Mistake, Problem, Painful

  "Dune Genesis". "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, (p. 72), July 1980.

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• No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

  Frank Herbert

  Fall, Hands, People

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.235, Macmillan

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• I've been asked before, "Who are your heroes?" and these types of questions. I always find it hard to identify a single person or a single book or this sort of thing. I've always been forward looking. I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much anything you want. You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish. I was given a sense of confidence and I never really felt the need to - or I've never had the benefit, I should probably say - of being inspired by outside heroes.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Book, Benefits, Want

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Strong, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3094, Delphi Classics

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• I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.

  Johnny Damon

  Kids, Player, Mind

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

  Carl Crawford

  Teacher, Real, Parent

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• If the untimely battlefield deaths of generations of American heroes have taught us nothing else, it should be this unalterable fact: what you do with your time here on earth is far more important than the time you had to do it. Those who live most are those who love most, who act the noblest and do their best.

  Michael Mullen

  Taught Us, Important, Facts

  May 26, 2008.

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• A true hero protects his identiy, not out of fear, but out of humility.

  Jessica Jung

  Humility, Protect, True Hero

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• I don't have to be the hero or nothing. I just have to be part of the team.

  Bobby Abreu

  Team

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• Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.

  Carlos Gonzalez

  Games, Play, Trying

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• A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.

  Jeremy Shockey

  Believe, Thinking, Years

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