Hero Quotes
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The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
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The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.
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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
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Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile
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I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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He was my hero. I enjoyed being with him. He wasn't as stern as he was on camera. He was like a kid around me.
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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
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It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
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It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.
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I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.
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You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.
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Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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How long will we keep making films where hero-heroine is dancing around trees?
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Buster Keaton is my hero.
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Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.
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Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.
