Hero Quotes - Page 37

• What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.

  J.H. Wyman

  Mean, Journey, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I've read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I'm not a big reader.

  Conor McGregor

  Book, Home, Law Of Attraction

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I guess what we know about the Avengers is there's a reason why all of the heroes that we've been meeting, from Thor to Captain America - everybody - they need to work together.

  Clark Gregg

  America, Working Together, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.

  John Lennon

  Stars, Class, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• [After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public.

  Harrison Ford

  Running, Dog, Mean

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Empire Magazine Issue #156, www.empireonline.com. June 2002.

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• As an actor you're only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don't like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money... an actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You'll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Mistake, Stupid, Silly

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• Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

  Michael Bywater

  Should, Mines

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• I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Artist, People

  "Taylor Swift: 100 Miles an Hour and Not Slowing Down". Interview with Annie Reuter, www.marieclaire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.

  Trent Reznor

  Dad, Dark, Age

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• The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.

  Andrew Williams

  Passion, Names, Evil

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• Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.

  Bipasha Basu

  Play, Ideas, Giving

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• You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself that I can fit convincingly into every kind of films. I want to do the 100 crore film where the hero does all the work, and I get to relax.

  Bipasha Basu

  Relax, Doe, Done

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• Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

  Don Henley

  Song, Dad, Class

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• In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Real, Sacrifice, People

  "Exclusive Interview: John Rhys Davies Talks War of Resistance, Indy 5 + Returning to The Hobbit?". Interview with David Sztypuljak, www.heyuguys.com. August 15, 2011.

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• Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.

  Howard Baker

  President, Persons

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• My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. Thats where the spirit of the armed forces is.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Spirit, Another Life, Force

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• He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Player, Tables, Heirs

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• That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Children, Real, Ideas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

  Michael Caine

  Stuff, Used, Young

  "The Prestige - Michael Caine interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

  Michael Caine

  Father, War, Fighting

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• We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

  Diane Ackerman

  Thinking, Compassion, Enemy

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• The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, Sexy, Running

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• If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

  Henry Rollins

  Would Be, Crowds, Firsts

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• All my big heroes are literary, writers.

  Henry Rollins

  Bigs

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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• I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

  Henry Rollins

  Unique, Hands, Giving

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