Lois McMaster Quotes
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My hero is Roger Federer.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.
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Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.
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Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.
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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.
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My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.
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The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.
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My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.
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I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.
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Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.
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Pat Tillman is a hero of mine.
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Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I'd be in a TV show with him was incredible.
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My father was my hero. I can't say enough about him and everything he did for me and my family.
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I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.
Antony Sher -
Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.
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Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.
