Hero Quotes
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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
Francis Chan
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One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.
Carolyn Wheat
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There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.
Caragh M. O'Brien
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When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
Peter Coyote
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Kanye West, I love you. You might not have known, but I have said in other interviews that you're my hero.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
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My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?
Whoopi Goldberg
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Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.
Alex Bledsoe
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The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.
William Friedkin
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I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.
Andrew Davidson
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It was what I've always wanted, more than anything: to be an Olympic hero rather than a Tour de France star, something I had from childhood.
Bradley Wiggins
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Greatest American Hero, I really dug that as a kid, because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.
Rhys Darby
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.
Viola Davis
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The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.
Charles Sangster
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I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.
Simon Sinek
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My reason for coming out isn't to be some sort of hero.
Sheryl Swoopes
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
Carson McCullers
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I don't have to be the hero or nothing. I just have to be part of the team.
Bobby Abreu
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The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.
Russell Baker
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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.
Studs Terkel
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I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
William Lashner
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We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.
Diane Ackerman
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Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
Carroll O'Connor