Hero Quotes - Page 16

• It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

  Mary McCarthy

  Spiritual, Religious, Belief

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• I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.

  Peyton Manning

  Son, Nfl, House

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• The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.

  Peter H. Reynolds

  Motivational, Bars, Reason Why

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• We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

  Mary Pipher

  Military, Dull, Courageous

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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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• In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place.

  Renata Adler

  Phones, Calling, Pieces

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.100, New York Review of Books

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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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• 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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• My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.

  Leonard Cohen

  Two, Yeats, Lorca

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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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• This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don't lose hope. We've faced the darkness before-it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero.

  Ann Aguirre

  Sacrifice, Winning, Darkness

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• I think people imagine that I have about five scripts sitting in front of me and I say, 'I think I'm going to go with the super hero thing and after that I'll wrap it up with some more sci-fi and then do a romantic comedy.' But it doesn't quite work out that way.

  Nathan Fillion

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  "Nathon Fillion talks about playing Steve Trevor in “Wonder Woman”". The CBR Interview, www.cbr.com. January 28, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Lying, Roots, Looks

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. V, 1938.

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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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• 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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• Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

  Ed Helms

  Character, Done, Comedic

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.

  Jessica Chastain

  Dad, Real, Men

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• Goal achievement is hero's work.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Goal, Accomplishment

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