My Hero Quotes - Page 8

• For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about people who live in the United States. It's a slice-of-life. I play a character-that's it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I've been hit on in a really strong way by gay men who've tried to convert me, and a lot of my heroes are gay. William Burroughs, Lou Reed. Well, I guess Lou Reed is bi. The point is, it's 2002, gay life is no longer that shocking.

  Gale Harold

  Strong, Drama, Hero

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• My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Hero, College, Slavery

  George Edward Woodberry (1912). “Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American”

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• Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.

  Gary Morris

  Friendship, Hero, Wings

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• Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

  Joyce Banda

  Hero, People, President

  "Joyce Banda: 'I want Malawians to say our country became a better place'" by Lucy Lamble, Nick Francis and Marc Francis, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

  Michael Cunningham

  Hero, Thinking, Virginia

  "Michael Cunningham: A life in writing" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

  George Eads

  Sports, Dad, Hero

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• My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.

  Peter Greenaway

  Hero, People, Would Be

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• You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

  Tom Harkin

  Hero, Community, Together

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

  David Alan Grier

  Dad, Hero, Kids

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• My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

  Walton Goggins

  Hero, Forests, Hopkins

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ronaldo was my hero. I loved watching players like Zidane, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo, but Ronaldo was the best striker I've ever seen. He was so fast he could score from nothing and could shoot the ball better than anyone I've ever seen.

  Lionel Messi

  Hero, Player, Zidane

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• A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes.

  Jim Butcher

  Gratitude, Courage, Hero

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

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• Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner.

  Christian Friedrich Schonbein

  Strong, Hero, Science

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• My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Hero, People, Generations

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Hero, Home

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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  Patrick Stewart

  Falling In Love, Children, Hero

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• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  Warren Zevon

  Hero, Idols

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• Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

  Ryan McGinley

  Brother, Hero, Way

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• Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.

  Will Hermes

  Hero, Dark, Voice

  "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.

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• I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

  Michelle Shocked

  Hero, Long, Firefighter

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• Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

  Victoria Pratt

  Strong Women, Hero, Thinking

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• I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Mother, Hero, Grateful

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• I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

  Cheech Marin

  Hero, White, All Time

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.

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• One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.

  Peter Greenaway

  War, Book, Hero

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas.

  Ozzie Newsome

  Hero, Thinking, Baltimore

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