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• Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

  Warren Buffett

  Sports, Ends

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• My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Light, Darkness, Hardworking

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• No true hero ever believes that they are one.

  Neal Shusterman

  Believe, True Hero

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• My style hero was Batman. Now it's Tony Stark.

  Pharrell Williams

  Style, Stark Reality, Starks

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

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• Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

  Pat Conroy

  Character, Needs, Flaws

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Courage, Long

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• If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

  Mariah Carey

  Believe, Looks, Look Inside Yourself

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• Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.

  Tim O'Brien

  Waiting, Leaving, Shadow

  Tim O'Brien (1990). “The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction”, Broadway

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• Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Joy, Suffering, Coward

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.184

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• The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Media

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.61, Vintage

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• I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Noble, Stories, Moments

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Love Among the Chickens: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.425, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Those of us who follow Jesus Christ must seriously commit to praying for our leaders, never forgetting that even our greatest heroes are flawed individuals who need Jesus Christ, just like the rest of us.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Jesus, Prayer, Leader

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• You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

  Wally Schirra

  Fathers Day, Dad, Eye

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• I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

  Confucius

  Chinese, Silent, Dies

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• I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Real, Play, Opposites

  "Jonathan Rhys Meyers: 5 Things You Didn't Know About the Troubled Actor". www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Oh, I get it, it's simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and 18 means everybody gets the girl.

  Michael Douglas

  Girl, Mean, Simple

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

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• A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

  James Scott

  Hard Work, Writing, Thinking

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• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  Dalia Mogahed

  People, Complexes, Simplification

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• My reason for coming out isn't to be some sort of hero.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Reason, Coming Out

  "Three-time MVP 'tired of having to hide my feelings'" by LZ Granderson, www.espn.com. October 27, 2005.

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• Make the customer the hero of your brand's story.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Stories, Social Media, Marketing Strategy

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• No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.

  Ken Burns

  Baseball, Book, Writing

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• It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

  Sebastian Barry

  Peculiar, Half, Film

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.184, Faber & Faber

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• Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.

  Terry Pratchett

  Government, Thieves, Dollars

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• They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

  Neal Shusterman

  Real, Heart, Coward

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Fate, Arrows

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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