My Hero Quotes - Page 8

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

  Tom Harkin

  Hero, Community, Together

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• Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

  Daryl Hall

  Hero, Singers, Influence

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

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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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• 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 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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• All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago

  Larry Hagman

  Hero, Years, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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'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 really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

  Louis Sachar

  Hero, School, My Favorite

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• My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Hero, Men

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• When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

  Enric Sala

  Hero, Kids, People

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• My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Mom, Strong, Dad

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• My dad was my hero, my best friend.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Hero, My Best Friend

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• Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.

  Billie Jean King

  Hero, Reason, Beats

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• For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.

  Nikki Sixx

  New York, Father, Hero

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

  Johnny Depp

  Hero, People, Choices

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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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, Hero

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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

  Hero, Greek, Morality

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• I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
  wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
  was the best all-around player. Joe
  was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

  Willie Mays

  Hero, Player, Problem

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• Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.

  Frank Wilczek

  Inspiration, Hero, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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