Chris Borland Quotes

Pat Tillman is a hero of mine.

Chris Borland

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• There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hero

• I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Book
  • Culture

• From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

  

  Rain
  • Action
  • Star
  • Hero

• My hero is Roger Federer.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Hero
  • Roger
  • Federer

• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Wonder
  • Military

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Hero
  • Heroic

• The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Me
  • Hero
  • Term

• I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Hero

• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • World
  • Hero
  • Loved

• I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hero

• My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Job
  • Same
  • Critics

• I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Always
  • Player
  • Same

• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Invisible
  • Smell

• 'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Great
  • Character
  • Girl

• I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Human
  • Hero

• Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Me
  • Hero
  • Write

• I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Song
  • Man
  • Hero

• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Mean
  • Hero
  • Concern

• My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us.

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Career

• Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.

  

  Louise Brown
  • Funny
  • Running
  • Dog

• Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Food
  • Cooking
  • Taste

• Pat Tillman is a hero of mine.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Hero