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  • But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.

    Hero   Directors   Hawks  
  • I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

    Courage   Freedom   Hero  
    Interview published with the "Biograph" album set, 1985.
  • Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

  • Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

    Sports   Hero   Stories  
    "How to Seek Heroism in Demands" by Grande Lum, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.
  • The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

    Real   Mistake   Hero  
    Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

    "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.
  • How did the Turks become Muslim? They became Muslim through the Sufis. The Arabs never conquered the Turks. There were people in early Islam who were speaking like Hallaj, who spoke about the Truth, about reaching the Truth, about being one with the Truth, and not only they were not killed, but they were great heroes of their own culture, and there is a university in Turkey named after one [Sufi Saint.]

    Hero   Turkeys   People  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes.

    Hero   Numbers   Feelings  
    Source: www.listener.co.nz
  • I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I love Dungeons & Dragons, so the opportunity to have a fantasy-based RTS, or real time strategy game, at that time, seemed cool. I started playing it, and the early games were simple, but fun and they had these great heroes.

    Growing Up   Fun   Real  
    Source: collider.com
  • Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

    Hero   Men   Political  
  • Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

    Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.169, Shambhala Publications
  • But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

    Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.274, New World Library
  • Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

    Time   Hero   Men  
    Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.4
  • Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

    Hero   People   Care  
  • The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

    Sports   Dream   Real  
    Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Kings   Hero   Mean  
  • If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes sacrifice for causes; they do things that others hide from. I may not be some great hero, but I won’t hide from this. I would never live with myself.

    Hero   Sacrifice   People  
    Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.278, Simon and Schuster
  • If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.

    Hero   Gay   Law  
    Source: www.bilerico.com
  • My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.

    Hero   Two   Yeats  
  • I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

    Believe   Hero   Writing  
  • I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board.

    Source: collider.com
  • Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.

    Stars   Hero   Character  
    Source: www.moviesonline.ca
  • For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It will give you a Nobel prize and it will give you many honours; it will do everything to make you feel great, if you can fulfil one condition: if you are obedient, obedient like a robot, then all respect is for you. Then the society will make you a great hero, but there will be no grace, no beauty, no freedom, no truth, no being; you have committed a real suicide.

    Suicide   Real   Hero  
  • Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

    Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”
  • Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

    Life   Hero   Writing  
    The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)
  • You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem.

    Hero   Thinking   Looks  
  • I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

    Hero   Nursing   Nurse  
  • The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

    Hero   Men   Differences  
    Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.167, New Directions Publishing
  • A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor
  • The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

    Hero   Men   Firefighter  
    Henry David Thoreau, Robert Lawrence France, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Water: Reflecting Heaven”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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