Hero Quotes - Page 40

• Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  Andy Rooney

  Teacher, Jobs, Heart

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• Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

  Elia Kazan

  Character, Looks, Firsts

  Elia Kazan (2009). “Kazan on Directing”, p.260, Anchor

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• One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation.

  William Cowper Brann

  Doe, Creeks, Catfish

  William Cowper Brann (1911). “Brann the Iconoclast”

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• And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is all nothing but a swindle invented by the schoolmasters for educational reasons to keep children occupied for a given number of years. It has always been so and always will be.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Educational, Heart

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• Kenny Dalglish is a hero of mine and is the best player to ever wear a red shirt.

  Steven Gerrard

  Player, Red, Shirts

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• I continue to explain that plot inconsistencies in B movies are consistent, and should not be allowed to undermine one's enjoyment of the action, nor the fundamental credibility of the storyline: the good & bad guys are clearly delineated & easily recognizable, the hero duffs over the baddies, things blow up loudly & spectacularly, the good guy wins. Entirely credible.

  Robert Fripp

  Blow, Winning, Guy

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• Every villain is a hero in his or her own mind.

  Allison Brennan

  Mind, Villain

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• Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges ordinary Chinese people have to put up with, it's beneficial and, and, by any rational standard, non-threatening to have national energies channeled into this kind of competition. It's touching to see so many ordinary Chinese crowds cheering for their new heroes.

  James Fallows

  Cheer, Years, People

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• We each need to become our own hero.

  Debbie Ford

  Needs

  Debbie Ford (2011). “Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Democracy, Despair

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.185

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• I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

  Moby

  Catholic, Mary, Folks

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.

  Russell Crowe

  Religious, Character, Animal

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• The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

  Betty Dodson

  Abortion, Feminism, Lines

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• This is a terrible year [2015] in a lot of ways. You have Paris. You have San Bernardino. But there was, if you remember the summer, there was that attempted terror attack on the train in France. There were two U.S. Marines, there`s one other guy. They were three guys who got up and who stopped that attack. Nobody died. They are heroes and they are my people of the year, three of them.

  Steve Kornacki

  Summer, Marine, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that is sanctioned both socially and aesthetically. The male hero and acts of heroism require violence. Everyone is okey dokey with that. We are only beginning to see that constricting set of truths open up a little.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Men, Violent Acts, Evil

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed me. But I'm talking about what I see in the streets and in the media, this naked hatred that black men have towards the authentic black woman'which is really an indication of black men's hatred for blackness itself.

  Kola Boof

  Children, Father, Men

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• My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Grandmother, Fighting, Gun

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Heart, Emotional, Roots

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

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• However, unlike some of my friends and students, I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it is frightening to see what outrageous stories can be told in the United States and then are accepted by many educated people and academics as facts. Movies get awards, books become best sellers, heroes are made, and people become wealthy as a result of dishonest caricatures of Iranian people and society.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Book, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people.

  Tod Goldberg

  War, Dark, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.

  Tod Goldberg

  Thinking, Talking, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

  Annie E. Clark

  Guitar, Males, Female

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• Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

  John Dufresne

  Notebook, Writing, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some people that are heroes to some can be looked at by another group of people as villains. As far as a middle point, just speaking for myself, that's exactly what to avoid.

  Jon Bernthal

  People, Groups, Villain

  Source: collider.com

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