Hero Quotes - Page 35

• As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Adversity, Temptation

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• I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Thinking, Two, Our Generation

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• In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

  Anton Chekhov

  Character, Two, People

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• America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  America, Leader, Gone

  Gunnar Myrdal (1995). “Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy”, p.7, Transaction Publishers

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• For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fighting, Men, Shining

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• A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.

  Oswald Spengler

  Leader, World, Fields

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1950). “Perspectives of world history”

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• The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Men, Names, Bigs

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

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• Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Country, Needs, Unfortunate

  Bertolt Brecht (1999). “Playwright and the City: Calcutta's Tribute to Brecht in His Centenary Year”

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• I have two dogs. If I had retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet, the dogs are pretty much the same thing.

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Children, Two

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• I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.

  Larry Lujack

  Jockeys, Today, Purses

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• As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

  Elena Ferrante

  Girl, Book, Men

  "Elena Ferrante, Art of Fiction No. 228". Interview with Sandro and Sandra Ferri, elenaferrante.com. 2015.

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• The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

  Mark Emmert

  Winning, Balance, Messages

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• Of course, I do not regret the Bond days. I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth, I have always hated guns and what they represent.

  Roger Moore

  Regret, Gun, Hands

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

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• Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

  Homer

  Towns, Muse, Ingenious

  Homer (2015). “The Odyssey: Top Classic Collections”, p.10, 谷月社

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• I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero.

  Bruce Campbell

  Skills, Bored, Giving

  Interview with Nerdlocker, moviepilot.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Just like on Guitar Hero, there are things that are similar and things that are not similar at all. When I first played DJ Hero, I wasn't very good. The control surface is similar in some ways to a turntable, but in other ways not at all the same.

  DJ Shadow

  Guitar, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

  Jim Woodring

  Artist, Order, People

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a more democratic, pluralistic direction. You now find a lot of people who are looking outside of the mainstream of the history of art for their mentors. Maybe not heroes, but mentors.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

  Cass McCombs

  Baseball, Team, Band

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• We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring. Don't have photographs of the killer. Don't make this 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero. Do localize the story to the affected community and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.

  Park Dietz

  Media, Years, Two

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• A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the country we love.

  Tony Meloto

  Country, Philippines, Victim

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• Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.

  Adrian Rogers

  Jesus, Needs, Mines

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• Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music.

  David Paul

  Men, Light, Darkness

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• In Celtic Ireland the name Leo was Lugh, another solar hero and mystic. In Wales he was Llew, to the Romans Lugus, to the Sumerians Lughal. Its not the same dude on walkabout, it's the Astrological sign of Leo. In the Christian iconography we have one of the Evangelists represented by a Lion. In the Nativity scenes we see 4 animals around the cradle of the Son/Sun king. One of these is also a Lion. Christians probably believe that there was one in the area and just happened to wander into the inn to take a peek at sleeping Jesus. Good thing it wasn't very hungry.

  Michael Tsarion

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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