Hero Quotes - Page 40

• Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Thinking, Tragedy

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• John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?

  Jay Leno

  War, Speaks French, Democracy

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• An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

  Milton Berle

  Horse, Kissing, Worry

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

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• I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.

  John Kiriakou

  Years, Parent, Six Year Olds

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future.

  Kevin Feige

  Female, Bigs, Screens

  Source: collider.com

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• There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'

  Forest Whitaker

  Hate, Uganda, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Mean, People, Humanity

  Interview with Oliver Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• 50 Cent is a hero to me because he's overcome so many things. He's been shot nine times and lived. I had a cousin got shot once in the ankle. Dead. I had to go to the funeral. I was mad. Man, you ain't hard! You ain't hard!

  Bill Bellamy

  Cousin, Men, Mad

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• I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

  Dave Grohl

  Growing Up, Thinking, Musical

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 9, 2013.

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• The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

  Huey Newton

  Stars, People, Tasks

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin

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• The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels in the psychethat open, open, openand finally open to the mystery of your Selfbeing Buddha consciousnessor the Christ.That's the journey.

  Joseph Campbell

  Journey, Jewels, Goal

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• The world is always waiting for someone to save the day, make things better. We've lost hope in politics, preachers. ... As a child of God, I just believe that Jesus is our hero, he is the one that came to save man's life, to save man's soul, to restore people back to themselves with a love that's real - an unconditional sacrificial love.

  Kirk Franklin

  Jesus, Children, Real

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• I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.

  Francis Dunnery

  Song, Angel, Men

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• I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing we all adored, like the younger befriends or reaches out to their hero, and for me, whenever you meet some younger person, who has a fire in their gut, a way of being in the world, it excites you.

  Eileen Myles

  Hate, Fire, Mentor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Guitar, Musician, Novelists

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• Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

  William Shatner

  Struggle, Needs, Villain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

  James Stockdale

  Disaster

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• Call me sick. Call me deranged. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna be your hero whether you like it or not!

  Randy Orton

  Worst Nightmares, Sick, You Like It

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• The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Song, Fate, Blow

  Mercedes Lackey (1998). “Oathblood”, p.126, Penguin

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• I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

  Joni Mitchell

  Thinking, Artist, Way

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• One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.

  Dwight Macdonald

  Demand

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• (Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

  Roger Ebert

  Mistake, Iron, Giving

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.300, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  Andy Rooney

  Teacher, Jobs, Heart

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• Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

  Elia Kazan

  Character, Looks, Firsts

  Elia Kazan (2009). “Kazan on Directing”, p.260, Anchor

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• I continue to explain that plot inconsistencies in B movies are consistent, and should not be allowed to undermine one's enjoyment of the action, nor the fundamental credibility of the storyline: the good & bad guys are clearly delineated & easily recognizable, the hero duffs over the baddies, things blow up loudly & spectacularly, the good guy wins. Entirely credible.

  Robert Fripp

  Blow, Winning, Guy

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