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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that
I've been asked whether I was worried about getting a reputation as a firefighter and it doesn't bother me.
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.
My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.
My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.
Not everybody would choose to be a firefighter or an ambulance driver. Not everyone wants to see the nasty bits of life.
If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.
The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
You don't need a college degree to be a good carpenter, welder, plumber, auto mechanic, member of the armed forces, or firefighter.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.
I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become a firefighter. I still do want to become a firefighter.
In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.
The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
There are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter.
People talk about me being a firefighter, but I have also been very successful. It annoys me that in this country you get pigeon-holed for certain things.
See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.
They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources
It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.
An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.
What firefighters, and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do, basically these people say "I'm going to protect all these strangers."
Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.
I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.
Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.