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It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.
Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.
I was going to be the hero of the movie [The Lost World]. I had to speak up and be like, "Shouldn't I be the one doing that?
I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.
More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.
Since childhood, I have always rooted for the villains. I would wish the villain beat the hero and get away with everything.
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He's probably the greatest hero of our time in real life, honestly.
What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.
The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.
I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.
The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.
If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.
... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.
Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.
Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
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.
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.
Nowhere Man embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. Its really near and dear to my heart.
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
"Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
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.
Dhoni Is My Hero. We talk a lot about Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, But this boy has as much talent as anyone in the game
I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.
I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.
How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.
The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
Scorsese's been a hero of mine since I was young. If you saw 'Swingers,' you know I was definitely fixated on his body of work.
Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.
Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.