The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
Kathryn Bigelow
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Calvin Coolidge
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What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
John Podhoretz
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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.
Arthur Ashe
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Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
James Geary
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
Tahl Raz
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September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.
Rory Stewart
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
William Hazlitt
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
Geraldine Brooks
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
Salman Khan
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In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
Joaquin Phoenix
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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
Miguel de Unamuno
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The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
Susan Faludi
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The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.
Duncan Jones
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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.
Andrea Seigel
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Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
Michio Kaku
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I love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism.
Ricky Gervais
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Albert Camus
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On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
Nancy Gibbs
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
John Lennon
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There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them.
Michael Korda
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'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.
Nina Tassler
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