Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.
Jeffrey Wright
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
T. C. Boyle
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The SEALs have a sense of community I've never seen anywhere. Not just the guys but the wives, widows, kids of fallen heroes.
Richard Phillips
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Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
John Osborne
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I don't accept films just because they have star heroes in lead. I rejected a few big films because I didn't like the story.
Sai Pallavi
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And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
Richard Attenborough
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My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.
John Hughes
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I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
Orlando Bloom
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My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
Marilynne Robinson
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
Mal Peet
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I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.
Marlon James
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The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
John Thorn
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
J. D. Souther
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Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.
Leeza Gibbons
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We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.
Stacie Orrico
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All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
Indira Gandhi
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I loved Martin Offiah, Andy Farrell and Shaun Edwards in that Wigan team, and they are still heroes today. They were outstanding players and great to watch.
Kevin Whately
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I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
Sidney Sheldon
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
H. P. Lovecraft
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If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
Guy Kawasaki
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I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.
Tommy Lasorda
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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
Felix Baumgartner
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Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.
Greg Rucka
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