Hero Quotes - Page 34

• I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

  Eric Kripke

  Book, Geek, Kind

  "'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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• I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy.

  Jon M. Chu

  Jobs, Growing Up, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

  Jon M. Chu

  Cry, Beliebers, Shaking

  Source: collider.com

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• I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

  Christian Bale

  Risk, Stories, Filmmaker

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero.

  Katia Winter

  Fun, Ideas, Brain

  Source: collider.com

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• Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Friendly, Sage, Crowds

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• Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

  Anita Roddick

  Organization, Want, Employee

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• A nation without heroes is nothing.

  Roberto Clemente

  Nations

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• Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, War, Responsibility

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• I have found that she is as kind and caring a person as she is hilarious. Simply put, Amy Poehler is my hero.

  Aziz Ansari

  Caring, Amy, Kind

  "Amy Poehler" by Aziz Ansari, content.time.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Style, Would Be, Morality

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• A man can be a hero in any profession

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Profession

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• You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

  Mitt Romney

  Larger Than Life

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• It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Honorable Man, Fifteen

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• Bradley Manning is an American hero.

  Bianca Jagger

  Bradley Manning, American Hero

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• If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.

  Peter Tatchell

  Rights, Abuse, Secret

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• Nelson Mandela is my hero outside of football. I was fortunate enough to meet him a couple of times. He was really clued up on his football and he knew me, so that was just unbelievable. It really stuck with me.

  Ryan Giggs

  Football, Couple, Enough

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• Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace. Let us all continue his legacy with purpose and passion.

  Pele

  Passion, Fighting, People

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• When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mom, America, Lists

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• See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.

  Steve Irwin

  Dad, Jacques Cousteau, Legends

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• Only bad generals need heroes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Needs

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• Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.

  Christopher Durang

  Country, Pigs, Long

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• Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Book, Doe

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• 'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

  Jeff Cooper

  Jobs, Men, Effort

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• We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Teacher, Media, People

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