Small towns and local publications love to have a hero of some kind. For Portland, it's definitely Ian Karmel and Ron Funches,… — Amy Miller Copy Share Image
If someone comes to me with a script and says, 'Sir, this hero...' I'm like, 'Is there a name, or he is… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
The thing about Luke Cage that makes him different is - on the surface is he's a hero for hire; Luke Cage… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside,… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country,… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.'… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“But what's left on earth that I haven't tried?" Prince Lír demanded. "I have swum four rivers, each in full flood and… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
You have to kind of lose yourself and not think about just how brave Mulan is. Yes, I am playing a hero,… — Liu Yifei Copy Share Image
Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think it's a dance that people want to see. It's a chemistry that people want to see. In the same way… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Children have a ton of mirror neurons when they are babies and kids and they mimic what they see and so heroes… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
“It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Edilio is in hiding,” Astrid snapped. “Edilio has to worry about being kicked out of the country. Our Edilio.” “He’s got a… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I spoke to Geoff Johns a lot. We went back and forth, and found a way to bring up the best qualities… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think, though, the biggest heroes in my life would have been both my mother and father. My father because he was… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
“Not every girl can be Isabelle Lightwood or Katniss Everdeen. I think the true measure of a hero is what a person… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
Katherine Johnson is a shining example of what you can truly do with hard work and persistence. Under what had to be… — Jim Justice Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
When I had left home in Delhi in 1956 to come to Bombay to become a hero, my father gave me a… — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances.… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
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