Hero Quotes
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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
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Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.
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Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
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Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets, canteens, binoculars, these kinds of things - that leant a kind of authenticity to the games we were playing. But, of course, my father never gave me anything. So I began to question him. You know, Why don't you have anything from the war? And I think he was...embarrassed to tell me he hadn't fought, because, you know, little boys want to turn their fathers into heroes, and he didn't want to be diminished in my eyes.
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She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.
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Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.
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I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.
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Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.
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I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.
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I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
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I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time. I mean, Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?' My hero.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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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.
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Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
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Become Your Own Hero.
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Each one was a hero. Their contribution to science and space exploration will never be forgotten.
