Hero Quotes - Page 13

• Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

  Joachim Peiper

  Idols, People, Six Months

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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 need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Beautiful, Honor, Needs

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we could really be amazing if only given a chance. That we could all be loved one day. You can always think of yourself as being transcendent or heroic. I think we all are.

  Megan Fox

  Thinking, Mind, One Day

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me after the film has come out and say, "My daughter idealizes that character. You're her hero." That's what I aim for. We're in the business of making heroes.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Daughter, Character, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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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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• Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Children, Parent, Lovers

  Francine du Plessix Gray (1983). “World Without End”, Playboy Mass Market Paperbacks

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• Nowhere Man embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. Its really near and dear to my heart.

  Ruth Glick

  Heart, Men, My Favorite

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• My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.

  Ruth Glick

  Moving, Able, Trouble

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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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• Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

  Peter Capaldi

  Real, Real Heroes

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

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• The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Loss, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

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• My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Two, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so Id love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Real, Intelligent, Thinking

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• My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.

  Michael Ian Black

  Growing Up, Mind Blowing, Wonder Woman

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  Nathan Gamble

  Real, Hard Work, People

  "A Conversation with Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Nathan Gamble of 'Dolphin Tale'". Interview with Paula K. Parker, www.catholic.org. September 20, 2011.

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• It doesnt matter about money and fame and whatever. I really dont care about that. My thing is, Im happy that Im able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Kids, Dont Care, Looks

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• Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes - eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them. In turning them all into heroes, we have lost a sense of the individuality they also fight to preserve.

  Elizabeth Samet

  War, Fighting, Sacrifice

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• You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business -- that takes a lot of audacity.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Tears, Trying, Panic

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• Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

  Lena Williams

  Ideas, People, Feel Good

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• The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly to the fact that no such person as King Arthur ever presided over a Round Table. Be this as it may, romance still hugs her heroes to her heart as possessions to be not willingly let die.

  H. A. Guerber

  Kings, Heart, Hands

  H. A. Guerber (1909). “Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages”, p.285, Courier Corporation

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• I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

  Joni Mitchell

  Teacher, Rap, Tchaikovsky

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• Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

  Willard Scott

  And Love, Teeth, Roger

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• Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!

  Imtiaz Ali

  Girl, Mom, Believe

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

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