Hero Quotes - Page 33

• Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

  David Cameron

  Legends, Figures, Our Time

  "Nelson Mandela: world leaders mourn inspirational figure" by Conal Urquhart, Dan Roberts, Paul Lewis, Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.

  Alan Coren

  Men, Thinking, Underwear

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.118, Canongate Books

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• I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.

  Aphra Behn

  Fame, Born, Ifs

  Aphra Behn, Jane Spencer (1998). “The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon”, p.191, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Lil Wayne, who is actually responsible for my career has always been a huge influence to me and one of my heroes.

  Drake

  Careers, Influence, Wayne

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• The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, People, Perception

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• History is written by those who hang heroes.

  Robert the Bruce

  Written

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• Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.

  Dorothy Norman

  Creative, Battle, Energy

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• The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!

  Rob Hopkins

  Ideas, Effort, Together

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• One murder makes a villian, millions a hero

  Beilby Porteus

  Murder, Millions

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• The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blood, Political, Age

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• In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

  Steven Weinberg

  Prophet

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• I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

  Manny Mota

  Country, Monday, Player

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• Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

  Aristotle

  Tragedy, Excess, Definitions

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• Ralph Fiennes was a big hero of mine acting-wise growing up and while I was training. I just find him so watchable. He was playing this very intimidating character when we worked together and it certainly felt like he was in character off set as well! He was very cool. Before a scene, he'd be like, "Come on. Let's improvise. Let's just do stuff." But Jesus Christ. He's Ralph Fiennes!

  Jeremy Irvine

  Wise, Jesus, Growing Up

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• So many times after a catastrophe like 9/11, Estonia in Sweden, the Holocaust or whatever, we are so fond of lifting up the hero examples, but actually 99 percent of survivors have done something that they feel very guilty about.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Holocaust, Example, Survivor

  Source: collider.com

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• Just look at the history of cinema. The most reproduced male character is probably the hero and the most reproduced female character is probably the sex object. I think those stereotypes have been reproduced over and over again. It also changes our expectations when it comes to a situation like this in real life.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Sex, Real, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• The outsider hero is hero riding into town, he's the gunslinger, shame - the same thing, he didn't want to do it anymore, he wanted to live a different life but part of who you are sort of haunts you and you can't run away from evil and if you have special skills, and most people are mistreated, which is unfortunately in our world, we always need an equalizer, that type of character to come to our rescue.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Running, Character, Skills

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks the Equalizer, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes From the 80s Series, and More on Set". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy.

  Dennis Haysbert

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this point, with the distrust that's there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Focus, Needs, Elements

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Loss, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings.

  Aisha Tyler

  Nice, People, Feelings

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• So each of the commercials- basically it's an action movie cliché. "Bus" is very much inspired by Speed obviously, where you have a high-jacked out of control bus, and you have heroes who are trying to jump from a moving vehicle to the bus and they just can't do it because the moving vehicle can't get close enough, because all these VW cars have this distancing technology, which is really fantastic.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Moving, Technology, Car

  Source: collider.com

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• There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible. That concept, in and of itself, is something that is dangerous to me, in a good way. It's exciting and scary to meet those people.

  Simon Helberg

  People, Parent, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Dream, Amy, Dreams Come True

  Source: collider.com

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• In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

  Eric Kripke

  Running, Thinking, Symbolism

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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