Hero Quotes - Page 19

• I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet. I love doing them, but sometimes you wanna completely try something different and create something unique and get lost in it a bit because it's completely far away from me.

  Sam Worthington

  Unique, Trying, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

  Jackie French

  Book, Home, People

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• Fans want heroes. They're bored. They want a hero and want to follow that guy.

  Jon Fitch

  Bored, Guy, Fans

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• One day you are the hero and the next day you are the zero. I got to take advantage of every opportunity that I have.

  Charlie Brenneman

  Zero, Opportunity, Next Day

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I am deeply saddened to hear about the passing of one of my all time heroes, George Jones. Georges' music was real and he was able to touch thousands through his songs. Not only was he a great singer, but he also had the ability to make you relate to every one of his songs, no matter who you are. He and his music will remain timeless in the world of country music. My thoughts and prayers are with his family through this difficult time.

  Easton Corbin

  Country, Song, Prayer

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• The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes.

  Jay Leno

  New York, War, Doctors

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• Place bets on your dreams and be your own hero!

  Joel Brown

  Dream, Your Dreams

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2015

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• Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

  Arthur Desmond

  Stamps, Disobedience

  "Might is Right". Book by Ragnar Redbeard, Chapter 5: The Chief End of Manhood, 6, 1890.

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• It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Two, Pages

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

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• The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.

  Naomi Klein

  Dream, Mirrors, Leader

  "The unknown icon" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2001.

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• Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Support, Excellence

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• Be the hero of your own story.

  Joe Rogan

  Suspense Novels, Suspense, Stories

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• Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

  Arthur Ashe

  Adversity, Black, Faces

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• He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

  Steve Earle

  Teacher, Real, Eric

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• Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

  Brent Sexton

  Directors, Casting, Unsung Hero

  "Q&A – Brent Sexton (Stan Larsen)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the
  great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also,
  and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they are
  commonly treated as enemies by it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Enemy, Patriot

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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• Proving that the best villains have the charisma of a hero, (Jason) Statham makes a strong impression, supplying the kind of menace that permeates the movie even when he's not on screen. His fight with (Dwayne) Johnson doesn't have the bang you'd expect from a The Transporter versus The Rock match-up, but the climactic Statham-(Vin)Diesel battle more than delivers.

  Alonso Duralde

  Strong, Fighting, Rocks

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• If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Dragons, Enemy

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• Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tree, Doe, Looks

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• No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than another thing.... Yet what were history if he did not exaggerate it? How comes it that history never has to wait for facts, but for a man to write it? The ages may go on forgetting the facts never so long, he can remember two for every one forgotten. The musty records of history, like the catacombs, contain the perishable remains, but only in the breast of genius are embalmed the souls of heroes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Men, Two

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• When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Imagination, Brave

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.282, Delphi Classics

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• There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Dream, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.380, Princeton University Press

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• Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greek, Morality, Autonomy

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• The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Lying, Men

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• Necessity makes heroes of us all.

  Mason Cooley

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