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• My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Lying, Writing, Pulse

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• There's a lot of unrest. There are a lot of people who are unhappy. I don't want to say I'm their hero, but a lot of people have said that... It's like this in every job, I think. There's certain people who are afforded privileges and maybe, maybe don't deserve them.

  CM Punk

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.

  Stan Lee

  Regret, Writing, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

  Margaret Deland

  Greatness, People, Levels

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• Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

  Pauline Kael

  Loner, Definitions, Protagonists

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• We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Survivor

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!" Was it not easier for the hero of Judaea to avoid the touch of the fair Philistine, than to elude her power when held in her arms?

  Jane Porter

  Angel, Temptation, Suffering

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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• [On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Sex, Military, Believe

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• The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Coward, Immortality

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• democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

  Margaret Halsey

  Democracy, Doe, Villain

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• Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

  Esther Forbes

  Men, Two, History

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• The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Destiny, Hero Journey

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.48, New World Library

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• Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.

  Carol Tavris

  Crazy, Anger, Character

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• You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes

  Warren Buffett

  Lucky, Advise, Picks

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• Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Soul, Villain, Absence

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Courage, Acting, World

  Tess Gerritsen, Julie Miller, Janie Crouch (2016). “Secrets Uncovered: A Romantic Suspense Collection: Never Say Die\Kansas City Cover-Up\Infiltration”, p.180, Harlequin

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• People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

  Vittorio Grigolo

  People, Needs, Aspects Of Life

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• For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

  Moby

  Inspiration, Trying, Made

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• We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

  John F. Kerry

  War, World, Proud

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Needs, Movement

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthew, www.nbcnews.com. December 11, 2009.

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• How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

  Seth Godin

  Discovery, Two, Interesting

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.28, Penguin

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• To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

  Dorothy Norman

  Posture

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.

  James Vila Blake

  Stars, Struggle, Voice

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• Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.

  African Spir

  Sacrifice, Men, Views

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.

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• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  Jack Gleeson

  Needs, Belief, Villain

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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