My Hero Quotes - Page 5

• Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

  Sherman Alexie

  Hero, People, Decent

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• Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to fight it. But when I fought it, the creative process was interrupted, so I ended up going with it. If I'm ever accused of being derivative of my heroes then I would take that as a compliment. I like staying close to the roots of my influences.

  Dale Watson

  Song, Hero, Writing

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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

  Hero, Thinking, Artist

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• Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.

  Zach Braff

  Hero, Ideas, Race

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• I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Religious, Philosophical

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.11, Modern Library

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• Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

  Peter Berg

  Hero, Firefighter

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• I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

  Brad Bird

  Hero, Firefighter, Television

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• I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.

  Maria Thayer

  Hero, Morris

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.

  Rashad Evans

  Mother, Hero, Adversity

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• My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

  Adam Baldwin

  Hero, Long, Firefighter

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• My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

  Robert Wyatt

  Hero, People, Firefighter

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• Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.

  Chris Pratt

  Hero, Cracks, Actors

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, tv.avclub.com. November 3, 2009.

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• I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

  Barry Pepper

  Hero, Firefighter

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• When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

  John B. Keane

  Hero, Rocks, Jason

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• There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.

  Robert Longo

  Success, Hero, Artist

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• Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.

  A. E. Housman

  Lonely, Hero, Men

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• I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.

  Vandana Shiva

  Hero, Order, Years

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.

  Lea DeLaria

  Hero, Ideas, Important

  "You & A Guest". Live chat, www.breakupgirl.net. July 15, 1999.

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• What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.

  Steve Tesich

  Sports, Dream, Jobs

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• Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

  Gail Simone

  Book, Hero, People

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• John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

  Carter Burwell

  Hero, Ties, Score

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• My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

  Shakira

  Dad, Inspiration, Hero

  "Colombian gold". Interview With Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2002.

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• I spent my entire experience with Gary on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's God. The second time on The Dark Knight Rises I was playing God, so I ignored him. Kicked him a bit, that kind of thing. Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, I did nothing but glean from him.

  Tom Hardy

  Hero, Dark, Thinking

  "Tom Hardy Describes Showdown With Gary Oldman In 'The Dark Knight Rises'". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know, because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers.

  Justin Bartha

  Hero, Fans, Mia

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

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• Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

  Craig T. Nelson

  Hero, Guy, Done

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